How to Use say for in a Sentence

say for

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• No one can say for sure which camp is right, and which one is wrong.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• No one can say for sure, and some things are different this time around.
  — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
• There could be something to say for Conley’s mere presence on the court.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2026
• Blunt had nothing but kind words to say for her Jungle Cruise costar as well.
  — Hedy Phillips, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• That ought to be enough for researchers to say for sure whether dark energy is varying or not.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2025
• What does Vaughan’s story say for others?
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
• More fascinating, though, is what Brooks has to say for himself.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
• The bottom line is, more research is needed to say for sure if or how preservatives cause cancer.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Health, 9 Jan. 2026
• Coach Jim Harbaugh couldn’t say for certain when asked Thursday.
  — Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
• Because who can say for certain where these Patriots are going?
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
• As world views go, scientific materialism has a lot to say for it.
  — Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
• Luckily for the Giants, which sounds odd to say for the team, Dart fits both of those qualities.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
• There’s obviously a lot to say for this technology.
  — Hugh Leask,chloe Taylor, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
• The truth behind the 1966 heist might well have been uncovered — but only those who are no longer with us could say for sure.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 17 July 2026
• In truth, investors can't say for certain how high yields have to rise in order to significantly damage the stock market.
  — Sarah Min, CNBC, 23 July 2026
• Neither character can say for sure, nor can the reader, and their interactions are all the more interesting for it.
  — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
• Much will depend on their ability to break decisively with an establishment that no longer has anything good to say for itself.
  — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• What, if anything, the future holds for The New Mastersounds is impossible to say for sure.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
• The Indiana people who have helped the Hoosiers secure their own roster can now say for sure that their program has leveled up several times over.
  — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• Experts can't say for certain that the flu shot itself stopped Alzheimer’s because people who get high-dose vaccines might also have other healthy habits, like better diets or more frequent check-ups.
  — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
• No one can say for sure what the tariff rules will be in a month, a year or beyond, and that uncertainty is creating havoc in a farm sector that can’t function efficiently without advance planning.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
• However, Roman couldn’t say for certain when Becton might be ready to participate fully in practice let alone make his Chargers debut.
  — Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 19 Aug. 2025
• Scientists say for humanity to avoid the most catastrophic effects of a hotter climate, most of the world's fossil fuels need to stay in the ground, including nearly half of natural gas reserves.
  — NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
• Some of this unprecedented editorial permissiveness can be attributed to the disappearance of a stable moral consensus to bind the ruling class to its subjects, who have come to develop the conviction that the Establishment has nothing good to say for itself.
  — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• For example, retirement contributions, say for a 401(k), are essentially a form of dollar-cost averaging – steady amounts deducted from each paycheck and invested automatically.
  — True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025