How to Use certitude in a Sentence
certitude
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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
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The Fed has acted with notable certitude in the face of all this murkiness.
—Michael Steinberger, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
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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
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Somehow, though, Trump’s regal certitude did not put the matter to rest.
—Bruce Handy, The Hive, 17 Jan. 2017
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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
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Again, to a degree of certitude that should be sufficient, they should be suppressed.
—Recode Staff, Recode, 19 June 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But one certitude at an uncertain moment is that that, at least, will not happen.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 July 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Some viewers were drawn to the sense of absolute certitude that Mr. Trebek projected.
—New York Times, 8 Nov. 2020
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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
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People still argue about it, some with a certitude that is genuinely alarming.
—Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2021
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The Hindu texts operate from a platform of skepticism, not a springboard of certitude.
—Shashi Tharoor, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
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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
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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
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So the question is: Why do some men make rash decisions with unwavering certitude?
—Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
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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
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There’s plenty of certitude in Versace, which is unabashed about underlining its theses over and over.
—Daniel D'addario, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
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But Comey’s internal certitude has led the FBI official to freelance his positions at times.
—Washington Post, 10 May 2017
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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
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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
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Away from unbending certitude, from seeing the world only in black-and-white with no gray, and from treating politics as a zero-sum, all-or-nothing proposition.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
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Wack effectively conveys the cracks of vulnerability and self-doubt that emerge in Ned’s wall of certitude.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
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Eleanor Roosevelt offered a prescription to guard against tribal self-certitude.
—Jon Meacham, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
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