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• The new law has little to commend it: it even worsens the legal certainty of the nation.From the entry commend
• The undemonstrability of what would happen under those conditions does not negate our certainty about what we ought to expect.From the entry undemonstrability
• It is a certainty, given the form book, that this prime minister will be condemning us to many more months of wage restraint.From the entry form book
• A second wave of Covid-19 now seems to be a racing certainty.2020 July 19, John Harris, “Now Britain stands at the crossroads. Will we choose dread or hope?”, in The Guardian. From the entry racing certainty
• And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again?2015, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, Hachette…. From the entry Moore's Law
• Peter's in Rome, where its presence is documented with some certainty from the mid-twelfth century onward.2012, David Engel, Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History. From the entry sudarium
• Certainty for litigants decreases litigation and transaction costs and increases the chances that cases will settle.2010, Clay H. Kaminsky, “The Rome II Regulation: A Comparative Perspective on Federalizing Choice of Law”, in Tulane Law Review, volume…. From the entry settle
• He was the next big thing, a wonderkid and sure-fire certainty to make it to the top.2010, Mark Ward, Hammered. From the entry wonderkid
• Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.2009, Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, A Companion to Epistemology. From the entry apodeictic
• Nor are the properties of absolute certainty, rational irrevisability, or infallibility attributed to a priori claims.2008 January 30, Lisa Warenski, “Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI. From the entry irrevisability
• The veracity of a dendrochronological dating depends on the certainty of the collations on the dendrochronological scale.2007, Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science?: Chronology 1, page 73. From the entry dating
• Episodic experience edges one toward the certainty, i.e., the ‘unculturality’, of nature, thus enhancing authority.2003, Derek Pomeroy Brereton, Kinship and Landscape at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, →ISBN, page 328. From the entry unculturality
• The value of the Latin letter O was for a virtual certainty a mid, back, rounded vowel.2000, Andrew L. Sihler, Language History: An introduction, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 196–197. From the entry middish
• She had told her mother about this in perfect certainty that she had seen it.1998, Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman, page 74. From the entry front
• This creature cannot with certainty be identified and is commonly called the ‘Typhonian animal’.1972, New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, page 20. From the entry Typhonian
• There is not enough for certainty, but I set out below a possible scheme, exempli gratia.1967, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik [Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy], page 78. From the entry exempli gratia
• No religion has ever yet owed its prevalence to ‘apodictic certainty’.1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature…. From the entry apodictic
• This I can answer with absolute certainty: yes.2017 January 3, Bruce Handy, “The Five Trumpiest Things About the New, Post-Trump Celebrity Apprentice”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry Trumptastic
• We have no archaeological evidence that we can with certainty attribute to original performances of Plautus and Terence.2012, Timothy J. Moore, Music in Roman Comedy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry tibicen
• Within the reality of its factical certainty death is unoptional.2011 October 27, Joachim L. Oberst, Heidegger on Language and Death: The Intrinsic Connection in Human Existence, A&C Black, →ISBN. From the entry unoptional
• Of course, certainty is a value in all systems of conflict of laws—including those of the United States.2010, Clay H. Kaminsky, “The Rome II Regulation: A Comparative Perspective on Federalizing Choice of Law”, in Tulane Law Review, volume…. From the entry settle
• LI Zhen-Yu informed me recently that he saw this species with certainty in Zhuxi County of Hubei Province.2010, Hong De-Yuan, Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 92. From the entry Zhuxi
• Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 737. From the entry adiabatic
• "A hike on Thursday looks a stone cold certainty," Howard Archer, chief UK economist at Global Insight, said.2006 November 6, Philip Thornton, “Interest rate rise a 'stone-cold certainty' despite industry plea”, in The Independent. From the entry stone cold
• But at this point in political time I want augurism through a paintbrush; I want suggestions , not certainties.2006, Calyx - Volume 23, page 43. From the entry augurism
• It's a nostalgic grab for old certainties.2005 September 11, Madeleine Bunting, “The muscular liberals are marching into a dead end”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry dead end
• Certainty is no more required in the case of atheism than it is in the case of scientific theories.2002, Michael Martin, “Should atheists be agnostics?”, in Julian Baggini, editor, The Philosophers' Magazine, number 19, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry atheism
• In dealing with certainty choices, standard economic theory treats utility (intensity of preference) as an ordinal rather than a cardinal variable.1992, Jack Hirshleifer with John G. Riley, The analytics of uncertainty and information, page 14. From the entry cardinal variable
• All its previous certainties have been demolished.1991, “Editorial notes”, in The Cereologist: The Journal for Crop Circles Studies, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: The Cereologist, OCLC…. From the entry cereology
• Amongst the ovicaprid bones only the sheep is known with certainty, and considerable variation in their size was apparent.1970, Jacqueline Murray, “European Mesolithic and Aceramic Neolithic Economies”, in The First European Agriculture, a Study of the…. From the entry ovicaprid
• More analyses are required to settle this point with certainty.1961, S. C. Nyburg, X-ray Analysis of Organic Structures, volume 4, page 184. From the entry formamidoxime
• Such a revolution was particularly unwelcome; it meant exchanging the certainties of conventional warfare for a vast number of question marks.1958 May 14, Christian de La Malène, Constantin Melnik, “Second Period (1949–1955): Atomic Weapons are Regarded as Facts whose Existence…. From the entry question mark
• It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty.1954, Peter Drucker, The Landmarks of Tomorrow. From the entry innovation
• Foremost of all, of course, were the sight of the fiery caves and the certainty that some troglodytic race inhabited them.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry troglodytic
• However, certainty is anything but a sure thing these days, and the bread-and-butter of the US economy might not go unscathed, said RSM economist Brusuelas.2025 April 9, Alicia Wallace, “The next round of Trump’s tariffs could hurt even more. Here’s what to expect”, in CNN Business. From the entry RSM
• If, as we knew with increasing certainty, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and others were contesting us in cyberspace, it was time to fight back.2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry cyberspace

Meaning of certainty

1. noun The state of being certain.
2. noun An instance of being certain.
3. noun A fact or truth unquestionably established.

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How do you use certainty in a sentence?

Certainty is used as a noun. For example: “She spoke with complete certainty.”

What is a short sentence with certainty?

“She spoke with complete certainty.”

What does certainty mean?

Certainty means the state of being certain.