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Recent Examples of incertitude And yet the actor spent much of a recent conversation candidly admitting to ambivalence and incertitude. 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 But underneath the skepticism, something else nagged at me: the sense that my incertitude was a metastasis of our jittery, gaslit world, where baseline reality is increasingly in dispute. New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019 The difficulty for me in pinning the city down geographically is reflected in a broader ideological incertitude; a current questioning of the state’s identity and place. Marley Marius, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2018 Like him, these TPS recipients will now how to live in incertitude. Fabienne Josaphat, Teen Vogue, 11 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incertitude
Noun
  • There's little doubt that AI will play an increasingly more prominent role in employee engagement, well-being and development.
    Kevin Korte, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • There’s little doubt that Ohtani will be back in the 2026 WBC with the Japanese team that is ranked first in the world.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, skepticism remains, with industry leaders such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang cautioning that meaningful commercial quantum applications could still be decades away.
    Dr. Ekta Dang, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Jack Schlossberg made his snarky pitch in an Instagram video Thursday addressed to the wife of his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was made Trump’s secretary of health and human services — despite his skepticism of life-saving vaccines.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Such sticker shocks frustrate consumers and raise suspicions of price gouging.
    Greg Petro, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • No one’s immune from suspicion, not even Kathryn, who has a way of smiling and purring through her answers to anyone’s questions.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With uncertainty because of tariffs already rattling markets, a government shutdown could prove disastrous.
    JJ Kinahan, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Subscribe Tech stocks in Europe pulled back 3.1% at 4.16 p.m. London time, following their U.S. counterparts, which were down amid uncertainty over the impact of U.S. tariffs on the outlook for the world’s largest economy.
    Chloe Taylor,Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Incertitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incertitude. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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