How to Use with certainty in a Sentence

with certainty

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  • What is known with certainty in Owasso, Okla., is that a 16-year-old is dead.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Witnesses on Kauai could not say with certainty that the ship had sailed too close.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 4 June 2024
  • While many other wine lovers can be vague on the details of what first brought them to the fruit of the vine, the Olympic gold medalist answers with certainty.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2025
  • But physicists don’t have a great way to predict this with certainty.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Drug experts said there’s no way to know with certainty whether Harris’ claim is true.
    Maria Ramirez Uribe, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Oct. 2024
  • But the rules for stress tests are complex enough that even that is difficult to pinpoint with certainty.
    Emily Flitter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But neither data point proves with certainty that the rise in seizures is evidence that fentanyl in the U.S. has been cut in half.
    Maria Ramirez Uribe, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Oct. 2024
  • No one can predict with certainty how events will unfold on the ground starting Jan. 28.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 3 Dec. 2024
  • None of the more than two dozen experts consulted by The Post was able to say with certainty what kind of weapon struck the hospital grounds or who fired it.
    Imogen Piper, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Strip the fluff from your vocabulary and speak with certainty.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • What no one can say with certainty is whether Stephen's death was accidental or not.
    Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The worst inflation in 40 years seems to be coming down, albeit slowly and not with certainty.
    Judy Shelton, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
  • What can be said with certainty is that any deal will be complicated.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 May 2025
  • As the Nuggets struggled through a four-game losing streak without him, Michael Malone couldn’t say with certainty that the star guard would be available for the start of the postseason.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The report said that House fiscal experts can't make the call with certainty until final numbers are in for the 2022 fiscal year.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Retailers Right now, no one can say with certainty what the impact of AI chatbots for search will be on brands and retailers.
    Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • What can be said with certainty is that the fighting in the Donbas in recent months has been incredibly costly for both sides.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 May 2023
  • As such, engineers will never be able to examine the hardware first hand to prove, with certainty, what went wrong.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • And no one but Brandt could say with certainty what led him to run over Ellingson with his Ford Explorer, crushing him to death in a gravel alley.
    Ken Bensinger, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • The bears haven’t been spotted with certainty there since 1996, according to the National Park Service.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2024
  • The extent of Palestinian blowback, should Netanyahu choose this path, is hard to predict with certainty.
    Daniel C. Kurtzer, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2023
  • No one can say with certainty the toll that Hunter Biden’s addiction has exacted on the president and his family.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • This brings us to another salient question: Must the outer limits of statutory reach be fixed with certainty?
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • But scientists can’t say with certainty how many people suffer from it.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
  • This may match with Trump’s policy goals, but often these correlations are hard to pin down with certainty.
    Simon Moore, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • However, Iwamura’s parents could not confirm with certainty that the voice on the recording belonged to their son.
    Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
  • Had Rosalie decided to address the notes to Marcie, there would have been some room for fantasy; nobody could say with certainty that the dead were not reading our minds or our letters to them.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But as Choudhury told HBR panel attendees, even the experts can’t say with certainty how many days in office precisely are best.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Truthfully, can anyone say with certainty what the right path forward is at quarterback?
    Mike Defabo, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Then began the forensic process of determining that with certainty.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025

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