The phrase "acute uncertainty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a high level of doubt or unpredictability regarding an outcome or decision.
Example: "The acute uncertainty surrounding the economic forecast has left many investors hesitant to make significant moves."
Alternatives: "severe uncertainty" or "intense uncertainty".
The result has been acute political uncertainty as the various power centres try to find a way to get along in a country that still has no permanent constitution, parliament or government more than a year after Mubarak's downfall.
The acute anxiety and uncertainty experienced by the people left behind doesn't bear thinking about.
38 39 However, the very effectiveness of contemporary acute treatment creates uncertainty about the benefits of preventive treatment beyond "optimised" acute treatment alone.
The sources of reluctance toward hypofractionated regimens include the lack of experience with large single fraction, concerns about its acute toxicity and uncertainty about the appropriate patient selection for hypofractionated therapy (Bezjak et al, 2002).
It would make uncertainty more acute by leaving us to the unpredictable forces of natural recovery and with no prospect of resolving our unsustainable deficits.
The second line of the "Neither" libretto — "from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself by way of neither" — conveys the mix of what seems to be acute observation and complete uncertainty in Beckett's phrases.
Consequently, even those students who are generally anxious to express their ideas in front of their classmates (i.e., those affected by trait-like or generalised context communication apprehension) hardly run the risk of encountering acute feelings of situational uncertainty if they choose to strictly avoid situations in which they have to speak (e.g. MacIntyre 2007).
Now more than ever, we are in an era of prognostic uncertainty for acute brain disease.
Our study adds to this list of stress factors the uncertainty and acute stress following critical incidents.
