uncertainty

Definition:
1. Being unsettled or in doubt.
2. The state of being unsure of something.

Use 'uncertainty' in a sentence:

• 1. The ability to do almost anything you like is powerful, but it can also lead to uncertainty about how to establish a standard approach to development.
• 2. It has been driven by fear, and it is creating even more fear as money problems and uncertainty grow.
• 3. When the uncertainties become greater than the certainties, we end up in a game of bluff.
• 4. A nervousness and tenderness and uncertainty I didn't understand.
• 5. The uncertainty was at last behind her.
• 6. The only thing to do is to fling caution to the winds and make a decision, right or wrong; anything is better than uncertainty.
• 7. Such convolutions leave the reader in a high state of uncertainty about what you just said.
• 8. That's not the only uncertainty.
• 9. Because of many uncertainties, an exact analysis of the stresses usually cannot be made.
• 10. He had an air of uncertainty about him.
• 11. This uncertainty must be swept away.
• 12. The uncertainty of winning provides added attraction and desirability through emotional "thrills".
• 13. Uncertainty is a discouragement to investment.
• 14. But that's not the only uncertainty.
• 15. Here was treasure-hunting under the happiest auspices--there would not be any bothersome uncertainty as to where to dig.
• 16. All this uncertainty breeds insecurity.
• 17. Hope, for Bloch, has its starting point in fear, in uncertainty, and in crisis: it is a creative force that goes hand in hand with utopian "wishful images".
• 18. The experiment didn't necessarily indicate that the dolphin had knowledge of its own uncertainty, just that it wanted to avoid negative consequences.
• 19. If you plan ahead, this'll prevent uncertainty and even panic should anything happen later.
• 20. Around every corner lurked doubt and uncertainty.
• 21. After six weeks of uncertainty, the strain was beginning to take its toll. 6.
• 22. Having said all that, I do actually enjoy an element of uncertainty.
• 23. If you say something like "this appears to be", it implies uncertainty.
• 24. "Part of the work-life issue has to talk about uncertainty about the future."
• 25. Surprisal is a variation on uncertainty sometimes used in information theory.
• 26. On the day her son began school, she meditated on the uncertainties of his future.
• 27. "There's no way around the uncertainty," says Kimberly Thompson, president of Kid Risk, a nonprofit group that studies children's health.
• 28. Shedd's zookeepers told Insider that, even during this time of uncertainty, it is important to keep things as normal as possible for the animals.
• 29. They did studies with monkeys and dolphins that provide evidence that these animals have the ability to feel uncertainty.
• 30. One of the uncertainties of military duty is that you never know when you might suddenly get posted away.
• 31. Research of Uncertainty Planning and Planning with Time and Resources.
• 32. The uncertainty was starting to wear on us, so I wanted to do something special.
• 33. Both uncertainties in the international economic environment and potential risks have increased.
• 34. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown's Grove Farm's stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist.
• 35. Part of the work-life issue has to talk about uncertainty about the future.
• 36. Each of the three following situations is characterized by a different kind of uncertainty.
• 37. Is it possible to enjoy a peaceful life in a world that is increasingly challenged by threats and uncertainties from wars, terrorism, economic crises and a widespread outbreak of infectious diseases?
• 38. Humans have an inherent need to resolve uncertainty, according to a recent study in psychological science.
• 39. IQ could help to bridge the gap and resolve the tremendous uncertainty about how much of what we're seeing is natural capriciousness and how much is the consequence of human activity.
• 40. There are many types of fear, but the two that inhibit iconoclastic thinking and people generally find difficult to deal with are fear of uncertainty and fear of public ridicule.
• 41. After six weeks of uncertainty, the strain was beginning to take its toll.
• 42. This energy uncertainty in turn appears as a variability in the apparent mass of the particle.
• 43. They tried to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties.
• 44. It was a time of terrible uncertainty.
• 45. The uncertainty created by this situation must be confusing for you.
• 46. When images begin to fade, the uncertainty about where to look increases the fluctuations in superior colliculus activity, triggering a microsaccade.
• 47. They hoped the waiting and the uncertainty would wear down my resistance.
• 48. They didn't get either reward or punishment for choosing the "pass" option, the uncertainty response.
• 49. We can help you to develop certain attitudes of mind like a willingness to accept uncertainty and the lack of definite truth.
• 50. There is considerable uncertainty about the company's future.
• 51. Given the uncertainty over Leigh's future I was left with little other choice.
• 52. Generally, there is uncertainty as to whether very young children can distinguish between fantasy and reality in advertising.
• 53. "The uncertainty of winning provides added attraction and desirability through emotional ‘ thrills.'"
• 54. The uncertainty of winning provides added attraction and desirability through emotional thrills.
• 55. The thesis puts emphasis on the uncertainty of dynamic economic law, including the uncertainty of economic law's legislation, execution and judicature.
• 56. There is much uncertainty about what it will involve.