dead certainty
Example Sentences
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If you haven’t actually fixed anything, it’s a dead certainty the enigmatic bug will return sometime in the future at the worst possible moment.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2013
General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’ll love you till I die––that I know in dead certainty.
From Tharon of Lost Valley by Johnson, Frank Tenney
Otherwise—ambling along haphazard as they were—they’d have lost their head-coverings to a dead certainty.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram
For capital, despite all the cant about its conservatism, is really moved by extremes: it is allured either by a dead certainty or by an equally defunct impossibility.
From True and Other Stories by Lathrop, George Parsons
