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
• But neither data point proves with certainty that the rise in seizures is evidence that fentanyl in the U.S. has been cut in half.
  — Maria Ramirez Uribe, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Oct. 2024
• No one can predict with certainty how events will unfold on the ground starting Jan. 28.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 3 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Strip the fluff from your vocabulary and speak with certainty.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This may match with Trump’s policy goals, but often these correlations are hard to pin down with certainty.
  — Simon Moore, Forbes, 28 Oct. 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
• Then began the forensic process of determining that with certainty.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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
• If banks are required to know that information with certainty, then any system that maintains those balances outside of the bank’s own core systems presents the bank with risks and expenses.
  — Gene A. Grant Ii, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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