certitude
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But we live in an era when instantaneous certitude about everything, an iron conviction in subjective judgment in the face of objective uncertainty, is the only guarantee of a hearing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
America, you’re a big, boisterous nation of more than 342 million people, with all sorts of competing impulses and interests, and no end of certitude to go around.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025
We can never actually achieve total certitude about the shapes climate change will take, nor do we need to arrive at certitude to take action.
From Salon • May 1, 2025
The lack of any enforcement mechanism means that there is no authoritative body to provide a definitive judgment, and no one has any legitimate claim to certitude.
From Slate • Dec. 5, 2024
He liked the cadence of the Arabic-inflected voice on Radio Kaduna, but he did not like the gleeful certitude with which it said “Port Harcourt is liberated! Port Harcourt is liberated!”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing certitude
The Call of the Wild
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Novel Study: Fahrenheit 451, Part II
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"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
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