certainty
IPA: sˈɝtʌnti
noun
- The state of being certain.
- An instance of being certain.
- A fact or truth unquestionably established.
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Examples of "certainty" in Sentences
- But the certainty is unfortunately only deceptive.
- On a young team in transition with a new general manager, the only certainty is change.
- "The most we can say with certainty is she's definitely comfortable with it ... and definitely family members do," he said.
- The other, which we call the certainty of adherence, is when the heart doth cleave and stick unto that which it doth believe.
- The racial barriers of the early 20th century are there, but there's that tone of moral certainty from the characters that rings through to nearly all who read it.
- The only certainty is that central banks and other decision makers appear to be increasingly united in pursuing strategies that will devalue their currencies, however diverse those strategies might be.
- Second, the concessionary review clause slipped in by the Treasury will allow the government to backtrack on the budget in 2014, depending on progress elsewhere in the EU, reducing long-term certainty on emissions cuts and potentially harming the investor confidence in green technologies which the Climate Change Act is designed to build.
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