certainty
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NatWest's Paul Thwaite says there could be a "powerful recipe for sustained growth" from the private capital that flows from "long-term certainty and genuine collaboration".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
"We will not have certainty before it's too late," Rahmstorf says.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The folk beliefs held by Ildr and her elders—the certainty that all things are animated by spirits—is not so different from the evocation of a ghost in the data-center machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Even so, scientists still cannot say with certainty which volcanic feature is erupting, how deep the active vent originally was, or when it last erupted.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
They were on the highway at night in the middle of a storm when he was overcome by the certainty that a tree would fall and crush the car.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Death, taxes and Jean Smart winning another Emmy are among life’s certainties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
To death and taxes, add Red Rose victories to life's certainties.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
AI systems produce probabilities, and people treat them as certainties.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
One of the more obscure certainties in life is that once you hit the age for required minimum distributions, which is now 73, you have to take them from your accounts that have pretax money.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
The tragedy of the war, on so many levels, and the apparent unravelling of the certainties of the previous century, elicited an unprecedented collective response from British composers.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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