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Examples of certitude in a Sentence
believes with certitude that he is the best candidate for the job
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For investors, after months of stock market gains and soft-landing certitude, Tuesday’s losses are a reminder about potential risks.
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Christine Romans, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
To the question of whether Schreiber’s inscrutable Father Flynn has made advances on the lone Black student at a Bronx Catholic school, a suspicion that cements into certitude in the mind of Ryan’s acerbic Sister Aloysius, the answer seems too obvious.
—Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
Introduce ambiguity where there is a terrible, authoritarian certitude.
—Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
There is never a better situational outcome than where you are positioned with credibility, certitude and a pledge of trust to a professional and qualified network of leads who might actually need your services.
—Mustansir Paliwala, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
And that’s part of their erotic narrative, and, in the case of Gracie, possibly a sense of wanting to be rescued by a young male body and the sense of a confident, emerging young person that embodies a kind of certitude and strength.
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
Consider the rain as two opposite lands—two possible soundtracks
for a sleepless, long week—the principle
of uncertainty—the certitude of clarity—something
in between.
—Stav Poleg, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
Chuckle indulgently when the Journal insists with pious certitude that Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are pillars of ethical conduct who only forgot to fill out a few disclosure forms.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
This produced hundreds of tiny fragments that the researchers painstakingly identified (to a reasonable degree of certitude) under a microscope.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
Christine Romans, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
To the question of whether Schreiber’s inscrutable Father Flynn has made advances on the lone Black student at a Bronx Catholic school, a suspicion that cements into certitude in the mind of Ryan’s acerbic Sister Aloysius, the answer seems too obvious.
—Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
Introduce ambiguity where there is a terrible, authoritarian certitude.
—Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
There is never a better situational outcome than where you are positioned with credibility, certitude and a pledge of trust to a professional and qualified network of leads who might actually need your services.
—Mustansir Paliwala, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
And that’s part of their erotic narrative, and, in the case of Gracie, possibly a sense of wanting to be rescued by a young male body and the sense of a confident, emerging young person that embodies a kind of certitude and strength.
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
Consider the rain as two opposite lands—two possible soundtracks
for a sleepless, long week—the principle
of uncertainty—the certitude of clarity—something
in between.
—Stav Poleg, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
Chuckle indulgently when the Journal insists with pious certitude that Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are pillars of ethical conduct who only forgot to fill out a few disclosure forms.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
This produced hundreds of tiny fragments that the researchers painstakingly identified (to a reasonable degree of certitude) under a microscope.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
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“Certitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/certitude. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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certitude
noun
cer·ti·tude
ˈsərt-ə-ˌt(y)üd 
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