uncertain
/ʌnˈsɜɹ.tən/ noun C2- Something uncertain; everything uncertain. · Near-synonyms: uncertainty (countable sense), uncertainties· Their approach to the uncertain is laudable: they at least want to know the upper and lower bounds for what the answer could turn out to be.
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“It is humiliating,” said he, “thus to receive money given grudgingly,—an uncertain supply which may soon fail.
A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always fought on the side which he felt was the strongest.
I shall soon become a large fish fit for the tables of the rich, and then you can catch me again, and make a handsome profit of me.” The Fisherman replied, “I should indeed be a very simple fellow if, for the chance of a greater uncertain profit, I were to forego my present certain gain.”
The old Guiacum test was very clumsy and uncertain.
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