American lives had been lost, and it was a dead certainty that more would die in the days ahead.

And if they ignore you completely, it's a dead certainty.

It's a dead certainty that after work, over drinks, absolutely no one will be able to top his stories.

"He'd still be constrained by having to get a majority in the Senate and that's not a dead certainty."

I tell you the colt is a dead certainty.

The end, he came to realize, was rapidly crystallizing into dead certainty.

"Yes-which is a dead certainty if the baby turns up with dark eyes.

Al, he knew with dead certainty, would follow him without an instant's hesitation whatever the consequence.

It's likely, anyway, even if it isn't a dead certainty."

Her own voice, colored with anger, sounded with a dead certainty that she almost felt.

What are the "dead certainties" of the title?

However one describes it, "Dead Certainties" is both frustrating and satisfying.

But to Gaynor, whose instincts had been honed by twenty years of security experience, it was a dead certainty.

Why the perfect crime is a dead certainty

I know that to a dead certainty."

"Very possible, but not a dead certainty.

Dead cert: Dead certainty, a horse or team that is considered highly likely to win.

In fact, it's more than just a suspicion, Joe-it's a dead certainty."

Such puzzles continue to tantalize the reader all the way through "Dead Certainties."

Dead certainties, you might have thought.

You didn't have to know why; you could predict with dead certainty and never know why.

Well, let's just say that accidentally finding a needle in a haystack would be a dead certainty by comparison."

Convinced of the dead certainty of death Grover suddenly became tremendously and overwhelmingly alive.

At first, I couldn't believe it; Deming had assured me that it was a dead certainty to go up.