Example Sentences

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AI systems produce probabilities, and people treat them as certainties.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

One of the more obscure certainties in life is that once you hit the age for required minimum distributions, which is now 73, you have to take them from your accounts that have pretax money.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025

The only certainties so far are that the opening match will feature Australia and be at Perth Stadium on Friday, October 1, 2027.

From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025

The dependable old world, with its fixed hierarchies and social certainties, is no longer available.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

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