certainly not

idiom

: not at all
"Did I offend you?" "Oh, certainly not."

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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, set off the capital spending frenzy by announcing a $500 billion AI infrastructure plan at the White House in January, and nothing is standing in Big Tech’s way; certainly not lawyers or anti-trust regulators. Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025 As far as Harbaugh’s status, owner Steve Bisciotti is almost certainly not going to pull the plug on his 18th-year head coach in the middle of the season, regardless of how many Ravens fans are calling for that to happen. Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025 Spending at last year's levels just is not enough for the uniparty, certainly not enough for Democrats and our own appropriators. Obed Manuel, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025 That lawmakers would be able to live outside of their districts and still represent the people who live there is certainly not what the writers of the California Constitution had in mind, said Dan Schnur, a politics and communications professor at UC Berkeley and USC. Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for certainly not

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“Certainly not.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/certainly%20not. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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