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- noun Plural form of
certitude .
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Examples
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The two certitudes of life are death and that Jimmy Buffett will never find that lost shaker of salt.
Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville Wayne Curtis 2011
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These people are on the air every night spouting certitudes about life as they see it and dramatically influencing public opinion.
Lou Dobbs, evil idiot Michael Tomasky 2010
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Without this openness to further questions, these answers, whether scientific findings, reports on slices of reality, or certitudes about how things work, may over time crystallize, become opaque, and begin to function as obstacles, blocking further inquiry into the essence of ever-evolving change in the now.
Alison Rose Levy: What Can Spiritual Seekers Learn from Scientists? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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Denouncing persons skeptical about the shrill certitudes of those who say global warming poses an imminent threat to the planet, he says:
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Without this openness to further questions, these answers, whether scientific findings, reports on slices of reality, or certitudes about how things work, may over time crystallize, become opaque, and begin to function as obstacles, blocking further inquiry into the essence of ever-evolving change in the now.
Alison Rose Levy: What Can Spiritual Seekers Learn from Scientists? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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Without this openness to further questions, these answers, whether scientific findings, reports on slices of reality, or certitudes about how things work, may over time crystallize, become opaque, and begin to function as obstacles, blocking further inquiry into the essence of ever-evolving change in the now.
Alison Rose Levy: What Can Spiritual Seekers Learn from Scientists? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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Without this openness to further questions, these answers, whether scientific findings, reports on slices of reality, or certitudes about how things work, may over time crystallize, become opaque, and begin to function as obstacles, blocking further inquiry into the essence of ever-evolving change in the now.
Alison Rose Levy: What Can Spiritual Seekers Learn from Scientists? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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Denouncing persons skeptical about the shrill certitudes of those who say global warming poses an imminent threat to the planet, he says:
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Without this openness to further questions, these answers, whether scientific findings, reports on slices of reality, or certitudes about how things work, may over time crystallize, become opaque, and begin to function as obstacles, blocking further inquiry into the essence of ever-evolving change in the now.
Alison Rose Levy: What Can Spiritual Seekers Learn from Scientists? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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Without this openness to further questions, these answers, whether scientific findings, reports on slices of reality, or certitudes about how things work, may over time crystallize, become opaque, and begin to function as obstacles, blocking further inquiry into the essence of ever-evolving change in the now.
Alison Rose Levy: What Can Spiritual Seekers Learn from Scientists? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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