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The phrase "a certain uncertainty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific level or type of uncertainty that is acknowledged or recognized.
Example: "In the face of a certain uncertainty regarding the project's timeline, the team decided to prepare for various scenarios."
Alternatives: "a specific ambiguity" or "a particular doubt".
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The bouncing apostrophe bespeaks a certain uncertainty.
The fiscal-cliff negotiations were a certain uncertainty.
There has always been a certain uncertainty about what panto is – which continues to the present day.
Or so we are told by a reliable informant who has worked closely with Mr. Herzog in the past, but spoke on condition of anonymity because of a certain uncertainty about his plans.
Moreover, a certain uncertainty of the allocation of probabilities exists.
It consists of a certain uncertainty in the case of the allocation of the probabilities.
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He adds: "One thing is for certain, uncertainty is a real poison for investment".
"So in the end," he says, "I guess you could say it was my own selfish agenda that landed me in the back of a car, spinning off into certain uncertainty and loving every second of it.
Black bodies, living with "certain uncertainty," to use Frantz Fanon's words, can be in transit, it seems, for several generations.
Carter and Wilkes did find that a certain type of uncertainty was impeding job creation, but it wasn't the uncertainty the GOP was talking about ad nauseam.
To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, this year there were uncertain uncertainties and certain uncertainties.
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