How to Use doubtless in a Sentence
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Drescher has doubtless heard the same from time to time.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 11 Jan. 2026
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Some of my unease doubtless comes from my own age, not the city’s.
—Francis X. Maier, National Review, 20 Mar. 2020
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That doubtless kept a lot of women who looked like me on the sidelines.
—Onnie Willis Rogers, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
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This approach is doubtless crude.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
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That reality will doubtless haunt her for the rest of her life.
—Samuel Viskocil, Star Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
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One scene involving the kids will doubtless gin up some faux outrage.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
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There will doubtless be some smart kitchen gadgets to unwrap under the tree next week.
—Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 18 Dec. 2019
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So SpaceX is doubtless keen to see how the vehicle flies.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 20 May 2026
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There will doubtless be a scramble to sort through the rumors about his current health status.
—Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2023
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China will doubtless have more tricks to play in the run-up to January’s polls.
—The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
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The result would doubtless be the work of a true graphomaniac.
—Wisława Szymborska, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
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The low price of Disney+ will doubtless help the service attract subscribers.
—M.b., The Economist, 11 Nov. 2019
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Anyone who has ever claimed to dislike okra has doubtless been urged to try it in a different way.
—Stephanie Ganz, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
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Savings here and there are doubtless feasible.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
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All these things sound good, and there will doubtless be other surprises between now and release.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 14 June 2021
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There are doubtless some mothers who want to be with their child, loving passing them a juice box every instant.
—Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Oct. 2019
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His fans doubtless find the work’s register more palatable wrapped in a cartoon coating.
—New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
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Some copyright skeptics and fans of resale rights will doubtless applaud the ruling.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2018
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There doubtless will be complaints about the decisions Armstrong has made.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
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But the plant’s employees are doubtless aware of the union’s abysmal record in Fremont, which stretches back decades.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
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And some of us are praying for a new, doubtless less familiar Saint Francis.
—Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Apr. 2018
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Scheherazade would doubtless agree that this estate is a fount of incredible stories — both from the past and yet to be written.
—Joan Walden, courant.com, 5 Jan. 2018
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But the long time frame doubtless made that cold comfort to the people enslaved at Mount Vernon.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
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Longfellow was doubtless drawn to the cross as an emblem of Christian suffering.
—James Marcus, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
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Yes, some of us are looking for a new, doubtless very different Saint Benedict.
—Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Apr. 2018
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Liberties are doubtless taken, which is perfectly fine as long as the story gets at the spirit of the truth.
—Bill Goodykoontz, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2022
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And so does the hall, doubtless the silent witness to the same anguish that fuels this memorable production.
—Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
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The war will doubtless turn Ukraine into an emptied land—how many of the millions who left even before this war started would go back?
—Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 25 May 2022
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Even during the regular waterfowl seasons, hunters have doubtless seen a lone snow goose or white-fronted goose alone in a field.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026
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But, whether that comes to pass or not, Bareilles, who is forty-two, will doubtless stay an unusual sort of bisected celebrity.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
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Such are the perils of video meetings, which are doubtless here to stay.
—Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
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The movement doesn't seem to be motivated mainly by money, although there is doubtless money to be made.
—Noah Feldman, Star Tribune, 18 May 2021
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Part of the reason is doubtless because, as any time spent studying neuroscience will show you, our knowledge of the brain is in its infancy.
—Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
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Though the encounter is doubtless a touch cosmeticized, the two good actors capture the pair’s essential chemistry.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2021
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And Liu is simply terrific in these moments, doubtless owing at least in part to his own history as a stunt performer.
—Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021
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These findings will gradually filter out into the world’s markets, doubtless pushing more investors to divest.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2021
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While there are doubtless explanations of one form or another, 83 got money back from the government, many while making a profit.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
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At least 150 people have stayed behind in one parish in Louisiana, and there are doubtless others who could not or would not evacuate.
—Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2020
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Some of that $22 million was doubtless paid for expenses in putting the transactions together, and so that money is permanently lost.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
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Although finding a definitive pancake definition is difficult, and doubtless contentious, here are some of the very best pancakes around the world.
—Chris Dwyer, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
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When the team kicked off the season, nearly fifteen thousand fans were in the stands; more than two and a half million people watched on television, many of them doubtless gathering to watch at bars or inside homes.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2020
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Part of it is doubtless the enchanted, silvery atmosphere of Severance, but there is always a sense of occasion when this orchestra performs.
—New York Times, 22 May 2022
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This kind of work is doubtless more difficult, and less self-satisfying, than advancing brilliant legal and ethical arguments or marching on the steps of the Supreme Court.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
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Lastly, while there is doubtless a tradeoff between construction costs and operations, a smooth operation at the big airport this coming summer — the busiest travel season — sure as heck needs to be a priority.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
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Yet prisons doubtless need to ensure safety in the administration of their institutional duties, which include executions.
—Nick Tomaino, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021
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Demand for gasoline, jet fuel and other petroleum products is finally rising, but energy producers can’t flip a switch and produce enough fuel to meet that demand overnight, and are doubtless scarred by their losses last spring.
—Neil Irwin, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2021
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That was before additional American casualties occurred, with more doubtless coming.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
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Similarities to the Murdoch family and Fox News are doubtless intentional.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2021
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Whereas the sponsors of Resolution 37/43 had their eyes open, Amnesty International’s leaders doubtless have their eyes shut.
—Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
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The audience watching the Super Bowl pregame show is of course different, and certainly more eclectic, than the audience that watches nightly broadcast news reports or morning shows, though there’s doubtless crossover.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Feb. 2022
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As a result, mathematical truths do not make up a unified whole of equally indubitable truths; instead, their status as knowledge varies gradually from doubtless facts to increasingly uncertain hypotheses.
—Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2026
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The latter is an idea of quite remarkable destructiveness, particularly given the state’s disproportionate reliance on a relatively small group of the wealthy, many of whom are doubtless already eyeing Florida real estate.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
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Salo said, however, that the latest enrollment is doubtless higher than then because the earlier recession was before the Affordable Care Act allowed states to expand their Medicaid programs starting in 2014 to people with slightly higher incomes.
—Amy Goldstein, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2021
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Add in the doubtless significant number of people under 18 using ChatGPT (who weren't included in the sample at all), and a decent majority of OpenAI's users probably aren't old enough to remember the 20th century firsthand.
—ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
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