adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
almost certainly
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The story is almost certainly true.
definitely/certainly recommend
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We would definitely recommend these books to students in fourth to sixth grade.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
possible
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It is certainly possible that Mercury once had a molten iron core which has since partly or wholly solidified.
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Finding a new one is certainly possible .
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Oyster farming is certainly possible , and it's been done successfully in a number of places.
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Emotional appeals are certainly possible , but they are harder to make on a piece of white paper than face-to-face.
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Intraindustry trade is, however, certainly possible .
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It was certainly possible to study what would now be called ecological relationships before the founding of scientific ecology.
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It was certainly possible that the historical outlook, made it easier to dismiss the majority of instances.
true
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The same was certainly true of me, although my role was clearly less significant.
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This is certainly true when they deal with stories near home.
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However, that the main ideas were much the same is almost certainly true .
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That much is certainly true enough.
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This is certainly true in the North-East.
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This is certainly true of approval committees for thesis and dissertation proposals.
■ VERB
help
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Some back-row moves would certainly help to break up the pattern of play, but they must have a solid scrum first.
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The Harriman fortune and name certainly helped .
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Positive financial incentives in the form of specific grants from a specially established Department of Health Fund would certainly help .
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It certainly helps if you mix socially with successful people who encourage you.
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They certainly help to enhance a perspective that sees Faustus as a pawn between two more powerful forces.
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Educational grants and salary boosts could certainly help the careers of some nurses, but these are stopgap measures.
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We do not even have to posit a genetic advantage in imitation, though that would certainly help .
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Sewage plants that turn sludge into safer materials certainly help the environment, but they do release some chemicals.
look
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Mr. King I am interested to hear that, and I will certainly look into it.
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This sentence certainly looks like it is pure description although it is filled with ambiguities.
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I will certainly look at the point that my hon. Friend has mentioned.
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The police would certainly look for Tom Ripley around Dickie Greenleaf.
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You're certainly looking a lot better than when they brought you in.
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She certainly looked down on my mother, who was almost a foot shorter.
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The capital, Yangon, certainly looks like a boomtown.
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Mr. Jackson I shall certainly look into the position of the job club.
need
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You would certainly need convincing that they were going to change their management practices.
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And some explanation is certainly needed .
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The exemption you refer to certainly needs clarification.
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They were certainly needed , for by then the attendance had leapt to fifty-six.
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If the technology is used for more than word processing then lawyers will certainly need to be trained.
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He certainly needed to offer a response.
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The Republicans certainly need to find one, and fast.
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Ana Maria certainly needs her family around her now more than ever.
seem
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Mrs Donaldson, in last month's letters page, certainly seems to have the right idea.
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And some things certainly seem to be working for Roth.
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Tonight he certainly seemed at pains to play the perfect host.
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Well, that certainly seems pretty straight forward, even obvious.
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It certainly seemed as if his friend had snapped the bones of both his wings.
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He certainly seems to have had the interests of the blood-line at heart.
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In the uncompromising light of Jerusalem it had certainly seemed so.
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And to all of us who are eating less meat but paying more, it certainly seems less than a boom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Certainly , a backpacking trip in the high Sierras is not for everyone.
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We're certainly a lot better off than we were five years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it certainly Was, though not in the way the interviewees assumed.
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And that she most certainly was not, she told herself adamantly.
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And that was certainly a start.
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Books and people certainly affected him.
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Not the papers or the magazines and certainly not Kylie.
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Should the man choose to chase the quail rather than shoot it, he would almost certainly still have his dinner.
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This thought now struck him as too simple and certainly unpleasant in its snobbery, and he tore it up.
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We are not especially well-treated, certainly not as well as the locals.