How to Use with certainty in a Sentence

with certainty

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  • There is no way to say with certainty how effective this staff will be.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But sometimes growth doesn’t start with certainty.
    Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
  • But physicists don’t have a great way to predict this with certainty.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
  • What can be said with certainty is that any deal will be complicated.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 May 2025
  • Witnesses on Kauai could not say with certainty that the ship had sailed too close.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 4 June 2024
  • Season 4 closes not with certainty but with an omen.
    Jp Mangalindan, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Strip the fluff from your vocabulary and speak with certainty.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • What none of us knows with certainty is exactly how those changes will unfold, or how quickly.
    Becky Frankiewicz, Fortune, 22 July 2026
  • 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
  • What no one can say with certainty is whether Stephen's death was accidental or not.
    Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • But scientists can’t say with certainty how many people suffer from it.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
  • Who can say with certainty that a tax cut and spending spree will truly ignite inflation?
    Jessica Riedl, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Knowing with certainty that what was said wasn’t meant or true, but came from a place of hurt, helps release resentment.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Who can say with certainty that’s going to happen next offseason?
    Mike Defabo, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • While no one can say with certainty, Iran may not be up to the task of succeeding in a war against Israel.
    Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • 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
  • The worst inflation in 40 years seems to be coming down, albeit slowly and not with certainty.
    Judy Shelton, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Truthfully, can anyone say with certainty what the right path forward is at quarterback?
    Mike Defabo, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • There is no way to know with certainty how our decisions today impact our outcome tomorrow.
    Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Scientists are unable to say with certainty that any single weather event was caused by global warming.
    Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Then began the forensic process of determining that with certainty.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • In a Congress accustomed to last-minute deals, few are yet predicting with certainty how the drama will resolve.
    Nik Popli, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Monitoring trends is not about chasing every new idea or predicting the future with certainty.
    Dr. William Morice, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • 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
  • The extent of Palestinian blowback, should Netanyahu choose this path, is hard to predict with certainty.
    Daniel Kurtzer, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2023
  • Analysts spoke with certainty about strategy, morale and endgames, but often reversed themselves within weeks.
    Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • As a result, astronomers could not say with certainty whether rogue planets actually existed.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Jan. 2026

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