How to Use certitude in a Sentence

certitude

noun

• That the sheep are still on the air, dispensing undiminished certitudes, is evidence of two things.
  — George F. Will, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• Kmet has seen the way the Bears’ new offense puts Fields on the move more frequently and has heard the certitude in the way Fields has called plays.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2022
• The Fed has acted with notable certitude in the face of all this murkiness.
  — Michael Steinberger, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• His face flickers with a mix of disbelief and certitude; her eyes are on him.
  — Mallika Rao, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
• So we pundits are merchants of certitude in a world where much is in doubt and many questions don't have one right answer.
  — Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• Somehow, though, Trump’s regal certitude did not put the matter to rest.
  — Bruce Handy, The Hive, 17 Jan. 2017
• His solid point and certitude slowed time before the flush, and my two shots stole a moment from my memory.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2019
• Again, to a degree of certitude that should be sufficient, they should be suppressed.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 19 June 2018
• Such certitude, but the great die-out in the story happens off stage, almost banally, with the details left to the reader to imagine.
  — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2020
• At 55, with shoulder-length curls and a ready, mirthful, laugh, Lisa Schwarz radiates a certitude that can’t be learned from textbooks.
  — Matthew Green, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2017
• As people challenge the social certitudes that rose in the ’80s, the slicker, brighter future that machines promised looks shakier too.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
• But in the ranks of political punditry, the forecasts for 2020 are already dire and cloaked in certitude.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
• But one certitude at an uncertain moment is that that, at least, will not happen.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 July 2021
• Richard Thaler, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, discusses volatility in stocks and says stocks can’t be based on the certitude that there will be a massive tax cut.
  — Bloomberg.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• These were presented to the President, and publicly, in such detail and with such certitude as to sound—at first—very convincing and troubling.
  — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2021
• The new album sees Nash not rehashing the battles, but looking forward with a sense of strength, certitude, even defiance.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 17 May 2023
• John Henry, it should be remembered, is for African-Americans a symbol of might and moral certitude in the face of exploitation, among other things.
  — K. Austin Collins, HWD, 2 May 2018
• Some viewers were drawn to the sense of absolute certitude that Mr. Trebek projected.
  — New York Times, 8 Nov. 2020
• But notwithstanding the calamitous loss of life and untold destruction and misery that the conflict has wrought, there is little certitude as to how Biden’s plan will fare.
  — Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024
• But the objective reality is that Young Earth Creationists are wrong, and this is science known to a high degree of certitude.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2012
• People still argue about it, some with a certitude that is genuinely alarming.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2021
• The Hindu texts operate from a platform of skepticism, not a springboard of certitude.
  — Shashi Tharoor, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
• The articles in the pages that follow reveal other examples of misplaced certitude in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  — David A. Weintraub, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2013
• Bremer seems content in his new life, displaying the brisk certitude that was a hallmark of the Bush administration.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Mar. 2018
• So the question is: Why do some men make rash decisions with unwavering certitude?
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
• These experts will likely learn what many journalists have discovered: Only the already-convinced will read the book and the rest will remain convinced of their certitude.
  — Author: Kathleen Parker, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 June 2017
• There’s plenty of certitude in Versace, which is unabashed about underlining its theses over and over.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• But Comey’s internal certitude has led the FBI official to freelance his positions at times.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2017
• This inclines them to the view that the world is and should be ever more interconnected, and they are often fired by a near-messianic certitude that this trend is associated with the spread of all that is true and good.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• And that’s part of their erotic narrative, and, in the case of Gracie, possibly a sense of wanting to be rescued by a young male body and the sense of a confident, emerging young person that embodies a kind of certitude and strength.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024