certainty

Example Sentences

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Had the striker gone down, embellishing the level of contact, a VAR review feels like it would have been a certainty.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Optimists claim that closure isn’t a certainty, that a final decision hasn’t been made, that the media is writing a premature obituary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The lack of certainty over when the conflict will end has fueled some negative sentiment among investors, who had hoped for a deal between the two and a plan for reopening the waterway.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

Smaller carriers are often paid at a flat rate and have no certainty about whether they will recover the higher fuel costs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Some theologians were not content with moral certainty: in 1689 the Presbyterian propagandist Richard Baxter discussed the concept of evidence at great length, and decided that the only sort of evidence that counted was Evidence-Perspicuity.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton