uncertainness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncertainness
Noun
  • While this trend isn’t new, uncertainty around global energy demand, coupled with the rapid development of Generative AI, is encouraging energy and chemicals companies to pick up the pace on AI adoption.
    John England, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Despite the downturn and uncertainty about the future, linear networks continue to throw off significant cash with a sheer tonnage of content that continues to support the overall ecosystem.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • And yet the actor spent much of a recent conversation candidly admitting to ambivalence and incertitude.
    New York Times, New York Times, 27 May 2021
  • In an offseason of inactivity and incertitude, Bloom’s marquee move will be hiring a new manager.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2020
Noun
  • There was always a little bit of doubt there, even from the beginning.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 4 July 2025
  • Given today’s network of satellites and temperature sensors, when could scientists have first known, beyond a reasonable doubt, that increases in atmospheric CO2 from fossil fuel burning and land use change were altering our global climate?
    Ben Santer, Scientific American, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • The lack of trust and growing skepticism about Netanyahu’s intentions are reflected in the dwindling public approval among Israelis.
    Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Time, 7 July 2025
  • Many in Trump's cabinet have previously expressed concern over the implications of an overly strong dollar, and skepticism regarding its status as the world's reserve currency.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • There is value to her mistrust or distrust, her guarded-ness.
    Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Our team then looked at perceptual maps and vector message modeling by levels of mistrust.
    Sarah Bauerle Bass, The Conversation, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Negotiations with Iran are unlikely to be easy in a postwar atmosphere of distrust.
    Nabih Bulos Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025
  • Of course, this is all happening in the context of our medical establishment's racist history: For many years, the US carried out nonconsensual medical experiments on African Americans, which may also lead to lingering distrust today.
    Kayla Greaves, SELF, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Dexter stalks his next victim (Marc Menchaca) — a killer who targets ride-share drivers — while the ghost of his father Harry (James Remar) urges him to be careful, and a fidgety Harrison tries to evade police suspicions.
    EW.com, EW.com, 10 July 2025
  • That new regime’s anti-Western stance put it on a path to conflict with the United States and Israel, and created their long-standing suspicion that Iran’s nuclear program was not purely civilian, as Tehran claimed, but also involved clandestine efforts to develop weapons.
    Roya Hakakian, The Atlantic, 10 July 2025
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“Uncertainness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncertainness. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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