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dubiety

[doo-bahy-i-tee, dyoo-] / duˈbaɪ ɪ ti, dju- /


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Two radiologists are required to read every mammogram, and patients are called back in for further tests where there is any dubiety - but still, 20% of cancers are missed.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

Perhaps we have always lived in ages of dubiety, but Beckett’s quote is particularly apt in describing the last 60 years.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022

In the midst of the government's argument, he found it: "Their representations would be fraught with dubiety."

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2014

But once you get past that, Healey has a good deal to say about rural hardship and both the ethical dubiety and therapeutic potential of turning other people's lived experience into art.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2012

She gave me a look of some dubiety.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Hence their liveliness and certainty, greater than men can reach who are concerned with the dubieties and changes of incomplete things.

From Letters from America by Rupert Brooke

While this has its obvious dubieties and disadvantages, any other course would have smacked of prettification—a fate which such a book as "Yama" surely does not deserve.

From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney

For is there not here another heroine—cause of the dubieties of the Doctor Fidelis as above cited?

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

The fracas with Dobson had done him all the good in the world, for it had cleared the problem of dubieties and had put an edge on his temper.

From Huntingtower by John Buchan

Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.

From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle


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