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  • Some Futures may be strongly more likely, almost dead-certain.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • The phrase “words matter” is a dead-certain giveaway that some utterly pedantic point is being made.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Whole Lot of Error Going On 2010

  • Some Futures may be strongly more likely, almost dead-certain.

    Futures, Declarations, Promises, Trust, and Betraying Teh Gay 2009

  • And these fictional steps are dead-certain to punctuate "this broken jaw of our lost kingdoms" for years and years to come.

    Pepe Escobar: Mistah McChrystal - He Dead 2010

  • The phrase “words matter” is a dead-certain giveaway that some utterly pedantic point is being made.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Whole Lot of Error Going On 2010

  • I've never been in the camp that sees Joe Biden as a dead-certain lock to clean Palin's clock in a nationally televised debate.

    Steve Kettmann: It's All About Hiding Palin 2008

  • And, as I've often said, just when you think you have it all figured out, when you're confident that you're at the top of your game, when you are dead-certain that you're the master of your universe, that you have all the answers, somebody comes along and changes all the questions.

    From On High 2006

  • And, as I've often said, just when you think you have it all figured out, when you're confident that you're at the top of your game, when you are dead-certain that you're the master of your universe, that you have all the answers, somebody comes along and changes all the questions.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • Shana was dead-certain that he wasn't worried about Keman.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • If this resolution passes, I think it's a dead-certain bet that UNPROFOR will be withdrawn from Bosnia the next day, with all of the humanitarian catastrophe that will result from that -- the loss of humanitarian supplies for those refugees that we see on television everyday; the loss of assistance that goes with having a U.N. military force there to monitor what the conflict is like.

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1995

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