How to Use with certainty in a Sentence

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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
• But physicists don’t have a great way to predict this with certainty.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Calls about Nevada races were made later – largely because the results were close in many races and the media could not identify the winners with certainty for several days.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
• No one at Wildlife Works, a wildlife rehab, could identify the animal species with certainty because of the creature's poor health and physical appearance.
  — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 16 Feb. 2022
• Neither group could say with certainty what the source of the virus was, though the Texas authors noted there was no indication of a corresponding spike in human illness in the cities when the virus was detected in wastewater.
  — Megan Molteni and Helen Branswell, STAT, 13 May 2024
• There is no way to know with certainty how our decisions today impact our outcome tomorrow.
  — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 4 Jan. 2022
• The public health community has for years known with certainty that another major pandemic was on the way, and then another one after that—not if but when.
  — Michael T. Osterholm, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
• At a time with no major league action, the setup allows the Orioles’ fanbase to get its baseball fix before the minor league regular seasons begin with certainty next month.
  — Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 8 Mar. 2022
• Trophy distribution isn’t the kind of thing producers can plan for with certainty, but the end result was to add variety to a night that otherwise had an air of inevitability.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• And no one can say with certainty what’s coming 15 years down the road now, either—which is why, as Chap Taylor notes in the Substack conversation, writers fought last time around for a piece of downloads rather than subscription income.
  — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• And no one can say with certainty what’s coming 15 years down the road now, either—which is why, as Chap Taylor notes in the Substack conversation, writers fought last time around for a piece of downloads rather than subscription income.
  — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Algorithms that can instead predict with certainty that a particular guide RNA will work are needed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2016
• It's not known with certainty what causes an irruption, although most hypotheses point to either a scarcity or abundance of lemmings, the owl's primary food source on their breeding range.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
• The evidence would seem to completely dispute that, but what can be said with certainty is that Martin’s assent as an entertainer was gradual.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 June 2024

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024