certainty
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Investors are seeking certainty from the experts, and rather than disabuse them of those mistaken hopes, the pros often reinforce them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
But while the long-term contracts are helping drive the upswing, there is reason to wonder whether they provide any certainty in a downturn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
NatWest's Paul Thwaite says there could be a "powerful recipe for sustained growth" from the private capital that flows from "long-term certainty and genuine collaboration".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
He recalled his father, Rick, playing on a series of non-guaranteed contracts, jumping from team to team and city to city with no certainty that he would last a season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
He knew that, even if certainty about everything else had abandoned him.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
These calculations are useful, but they are estimates rather than certainties.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
AI systems produce probabilities, and people treat them as certainties.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Bournemouth and Palace offer up two certainties of managerial change, but decisions may well have to be made elsewhere depending on events between now and the end of the season.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Death and taxes were certainties long before Benjamin Franklin made the observation in 1789.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
Pure mathematics does indeed deal with certainties, but its applications are only as good as the underlying empirical assumptions, simplifications, and estimations that go into them.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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