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
A new coast-to-coast professional-football league is a dead certainty for 1945�if everyone doesn't get killed in the rush.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous.
From Time Magazine Archive
But for your splendid nerve we should all have gone to the bottom, to a dead certainty.
From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram
If they were trusted with a gun they were very reluctant to spend a cartridge unless for a dead certainty.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
