certainty

Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

It is a near certainty that jailed gays and lesbians face horrifying violence in prison.

And he says that with something he does share with Christopher—a tone of absolute, self-assured certainty.

He criticized rather than praised the merits of powerful government, but he did so with unequivocal certainty.

Kundera sees fiction as a realm of many partial truths, its only certainty “the wisdom of uncertainty.”

It's a certainty that they will be captured if they spend that money at any trading-post within our jurisdiction.

I wouldn't part for a second with the certainty that I am the biggest figure in young England to-day.

When an article is written, the financial reward (and we may as well live as not) is a matter of certainty.

The length of the fibre, moreover, cannot be determined with any absolute certainty from the thickness of the vein.

It was not my good fortune to be allowed to follow up my plans, which almost warranted a certainty of success.