certainty
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Scientists can’t say with certainty why this happens to some people and not others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Gibney says he doesn’t believe Musk manipulated votes, but the sequence leaves open what, if anything, lay behind his apparent early certainty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Its new foundational chapter, “How Science Works,” links “widespread acceptance” to “the highest level of certainty science has to offer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
However, this was pre-satellite monitoring so it is impossible to say with certainty that none formed.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
There is much less certainty regarding the beginning of the end of Jim Crow.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
There are no certainties but death and taxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
“There are very few certainties or permanent decisions in my life right now,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
This is an inflection point, with Iran poised precariously between old certainties and future possibilities, both at home and abroad.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
AI systems produce probabilities, and people treat them as certainties.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
The innocent yellow train that was to bring so many ambiguities and certainties, so many pleasant and unpleasant moments, so many changes, calamities, and feelings of nostalgia to Macondo.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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