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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Politicians routinely entertain what-ifs, which are impossible to prove or rebut with certainty.
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Angelo Fichera, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
Trophy distribution isn’t the kind of thing producers can plan for with certainty, but the end result was to add variety to a night that otherwise had an air of inevitability.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
The former imagines that the business present constitutes the frontier of progress, while the latter imagines that businesses operate with certainty about what consumers will want tomorrow.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
What is known with certainty in Owasso, Okla., is that a 16-year-old is dead.
—Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
The trouble is that no one has been able to say with certainty whether dark energy is actually so fixed—and if dark energy’s strength can change over time, reconciling this with the rest of physics may require rethinking our understanding of gravity.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
While not saying with certainty to expect zero snow until Presidents’ Day, the CWG team is seeing a warmer temperature trend over the next 10 days (into perhaps the first couple weeks of February).
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
Imagine being able to know with certainty whether that vacation photo your friend just posted on Instagram was taken in real life or generated on a server farm somewhere.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
The best-yet map of active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io hints at a hidden magma ocean—and more
By Robin George Andrews
Scientists can say two things with certainty about Io.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
Angelo Fichera, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
Trophy distribution isn’t the kind of thing producers can plan for with certainty, but the end result was to add variety to a night that otherwise had an air of inevitability.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
The former imagines that the business present constitutes the frontier of progress, while the latter imagines that businesses operate with certainty about what consumers will want tomorrow.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
What is known with certainty in Owasso, Okla., is that a 16-year-old is dead.
—Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
The trouble is that no one has been able to say with certainty whether dark energy is actually so fixed—and if dark energy’s strength can change over time, reconciling this with the rest of physics may require rethinking our understanding of gravity.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
While not saying with certainty to expect zero snow until Presidents’ Day, the CWG team is seeing a warmer temperature trend over the next 10 days (into perhaps the first couple weeks of February).
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
Imagine being able to know with certainty whether that vacation photo your friend just posted on Instagram was taken in real life or generated on a server farm somewhere.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
The best-yet map of active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io hints at a hidden magma ocean—and more
By Robin George Andrews
Scientists can say two things with certainty about Io.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
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