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    uncertainty


    1. He frowns, his uncertainty disappearing


    2. The next few moments were a horrible mixture of déjà vu and misunderstood questions, all of which left Miss Jones in a state of confused and bemused uncertainty


    3. Finally, with that hook of uncertainty still snagging and scratching at their hides, they decided to seek out a talisman, a lucky charm that would protect their love for each other forever and ever more


    4. She looked up at him with uncertainty


    5. confused and bemused uncertainty


    6. It will generate a fear of uncertainty


    7. Finally, with that hook of uncertainty still


    8. So why the uncertainty? Why resort to horoscopes for guidance? Something was out of kilter, and I couldn’t let it rest


    9. ‘Is that what you want to do, Sarah?’ he asked, uncertainty battling with dismay in his eyes


    10. Beyond that was uncertainty

    11. With hindsight, he could see that the uncertainty at work had made him difficult to live with, he’d been surly and silent where before he had laughed and chatted


    12. Naturally, they winced and slumped forward in surprise and more than a little uncertainty


    13. Livingson, I am certain I have never encountered a man who was so willing to offer such honest and candid uncertainty regarding the disposition of his position and prominence


    14. ‘It’s the uncertainty I can’t stand,’ she said


    15. In years of scarcity, the difficulty and uncertainty of subsistence make all such people eager to return to service


    16. The uncertainty of recovering his money makes the lender exact the same usurious interest which is usually required from bankrupts


    17. the certainty or uncertainty of the returns


    18. The readouts really didn't say that, that was her own uncertainty talking


    19. As it depends more, however, upon the local situation of the country, than upon the state of its wealth and industry ; as upon this account it may in different countries be the same in very different periods of improvement, and very different in the same period; its connection with the state of improvement is uncertain; and it is of this sort of uncertainty that I am here speaking


    20. The discovery of new mines, however, as the old ones come to be gradually exhausted, is a matter of the greatest uncertainty, and such as no human skill or industry can insure

    21. Such a paper money would, no doubt, fall more or less below the value of gold and silver, according as the difficulty or uncertainty of obtaining immediate payment was supposed to be greater or less, or according to the greater or less distance of time at which payment was exigible


    22. The promissory notes of those banking companies constituted, at that time, the far greater part of the currency of Scotland, which this uncertainty of payment necessarily degraded below value of gold and silver money


    23. But at Carlisle, bills were paid in gold and silver ; whereas at Dumfries they were paid in Scotch bank notes ; and the uncertainty of getting these bank notes exchanged for gold and silver coin, had thus degraded them four per cent


    24. ” I nibbled on my lip in uncertainty, because I knew this conversation was going to change the fabric of our relationship


    25. His groans of frustrated uncertainty about his culinary skills also made her laugh, though she did her best to muffle it


    26. It also relates to the new roles that you will be taking on and the uncertainty that that may bring


    27. It was at the same time enacted, that all bills drawn upon or negotiated at Amsterdam, of the value of 600 guilders and upwards, should be paid in bank money, which at once took away all uncertainty in the value of those bills


    28. Her uncertainty and nervousness didn't show


    29. Reia leaned over to her while the interlude of uncertainty gripped the rest of the company over Senta's near mutinous outburst


    30. “Ready for assignment my Captain,” she breathed in a tone devoid of any hint of doubt or uncertainty

    31. Another reason why such a topic is often avoided is because of the uncertainty of what lies after death


    32. or rather the uncertainty of it


    33. Then there was the way the past would impinge itself onto his psyche, that same uncertainty of his actions pressing in, causing him to question what were perfectly reasonable choices in retrospect


    34. Sure, he knew there was temporal fracturing: pockets of time existing in a kind of uncertainty state, bits of the future and past breaking through, much like general quantum uncertainty but on a macro scale


    35. The revelation: causality, uncertainty – the two were being fused and rendered into a determinate state by


    36. Torbin imagined them existing as a quantum system in its state of uncertainty: their existence would not bear scrutiny or objective observation, at least by the currently known means


    37. The uncertainty was quite evident as he stared at me


    38. The subject in which, after a very few simple and almost obvious truths, the most careful attention can discover nothing but obscurity and uncertainty, and can consequently produce nothing but subtlelies and sophisms, was greatly cultivated


    39. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the insolence, and favours the corruption, of an order of men who are naturally unpopular, even where they are neither insolent nor corrupt


    40. The certainty of what each individual ought to pay is, in taxation, a matter of so great importance, that a very considerable degree of inequality, it appears, I believe, from the experience of all nations, is not near so great an evil as a very small degree of uncertainty

    41. The extreme inequality and uncertainty of a tax assessed in this manner, can be compensated only by its extreme moderation; in consequence of which, every man finds himself rated so very much below his real revenue, that he gives himself little disturbance though his neighbour should be rated somewhat lower


    42. The rate, too, upon each district, continuing always the same, the uncertainty of this tax, so far as it might he assessed upon the stock of any individual, has been very much diminished, as well as rendered of much less consequence


    43. In the assessment of a tax which was not very heavy, a considerable degree of inequality had been found less insupportable than any degree of uncertainty


    44. Yes, was her first thought, then, uncertainty


    45. ‘The uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics means the virus did not properly exist until the time of sending, two minutes ago; the laws of physics furthermore means there is nothing you could effect in this reality


    46. The location could be pinpointed to within a few metres when he got nearer; the time of the message sent may vary according to quantum uncertainty


    47. Everyone had a right to be fully informed about the uncertainty


    48. They lived in a world of uncertainty, never


    49. Were they just to walk up to the gates and ask for the Amber Globe to be handed over? How would they gain access? How many guards were there? What monsters and demons would they face? How big was the globe? What size was the serpent that held the globe? Was it just a serpent’s head? Was it a full size statue perhaps tens of cubits high? Was there a plinth on which it stood? Was the storyteller in Baram trustworthy and accurate? What did the writing inscribed on the strange sword mean? Was it the same as on Anduin’s sword? Was Anduin telling them the whole truth and all that he knew? Why did the Illeander guard slay his wife? How did he get that far? If Cruzel attacked Illeander so soon, what if they were there when it happened? Halon’s mind swam with uncertainty so much it hurt


    50. As she watched Sicarius waiting, dark eyes cold, face a mask, Amaranthe felt new twinges of uncertainty about engineering the match














































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    Synonyms for "uncertainty"

    precariousness uncertainness uncertainty doubt doubtfulness dubiety dubiousness incertitude hazard disbelief problem faltering quandary hesitancy hesitation

    "uncertainty" definitions

    being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance


    the state of being unsure of something