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certainly

[sur-tn-lee] / ˈsɜr tn li /


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Back then, IBM certainly wouldn’t have hired weird longish-haired geeks like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who were working with chintzy little microprocessors that paled in comparison with IBM’s mighty mainframes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Although Japan and other Asian nations could buy crude from such a project, analysts say China would most certainly be the primary customer.

From The Wall Street Journal

If forced to keep either James or Reaves, almost certainly the Lakers would keep Reaves.

From Los Angeles Times

"Change in Uganda, especially political change, does not, and almost certainly will not, happen suddenly," Kasujja says.

From BBC

The trick was to be taken seriously as a professional without appearing to care about conforming to a standard and certainly without showing that one actually cared.

From Salon