with certainty
idiom
: in a certain or definite way
It is difficult to say with certainty which of the plays was written first.
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Season 4 closes not with certainty but with an omen.
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Jp Mangalindan, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
There’s also the theory that more than one killer may have been at work, making the actual tally of murders by DeSalvo alone impossible to confirm with certainty.
—Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Death in the Family starts with certainty, placing viewers inside the remote kennels where Maggie (Patricia Arquette) and Paul (Johnny Berchtold) lie dead.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
Approach them with curiosity about why good people might see things differently, rather than with certainty that anyone who disagrees must be misinformed or malicious.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Jp Mangalindan, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
There’s also the theory that more than one killer may have been at work, making the actual tally of murders by DeSalvo alone impossible to confirm with certainty.
—Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Death in the Family starts with certainty, placing viewers inside the remote kennels where Maggie (Patricia Arquette) and Paul (Johnny Berchtold) lie dead.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
Approach them with curiosity about why good people might see things differently, rather than with certainty that anyone who disagrees must be misinformed or malicious.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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“With certainty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/with%20certainty. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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