Uncertainty used in a sentence

Uncertainty in a sentence as a noun

If the market felt dgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty.

The biggest downside, though, for the rest of us would have been in the resulting uncertainty on how such claims would be resolved in the future.

In a situation of such great uncertainty in the market, the government is the only source of demand big enough to make a dent.

A heavy, slow word might be more important, or a word that is pronounced with the tone rising might indicate a question or uncertainty.

I already got myself into minor trouble, revealing my uncertainty over my gender identity.

You don't have any idea if you're going to be waiting 10 minutes, 3 hours or even if you'll make it through the line at all before they close for the day. Combined with the stress of the possibility of rejection or missing some critical piece of paperwork, the uncertainty adds a huge amount of cognitive load.

I've canceled the card I used with Linode, the hacker may or may not have got access to the card number, but given the level of uncertainty I'd just rather cancel my card and get a new one reissued.

I'd say that goes directly against one of the theses of the article -- that "uncertainty magnifies the stress of waiting".The most excruciating waits that I've had to deal with in the last many years are at the Auslnderbehrde here in Germany -- the "foreigners' office".

My boss and my bosses's boss and all the HR people I'd give an F. Absolutely the most incompetent people I've worked with in 20 years of mostly working with startups where even really competent people have to struggle with immense difficulties and uncertainty, neither of which was present at Amazon, except to the extent created by incompetence, though this incompetence went all the way to the top. I saw other people leading other teams who were C & D players, so I presume my team was just particularly bad.

Congress overwhelmingly balked at the idea of any broad assertion of such authority and, in the back and forth, the FCC came up with the toe-in-the water approach just adopted to the satisfaction of almost no one. Even this assertion of jurisdiction will certainly be challenged in the courts in cases that will take years to decide, leaving this whole issue in a pathetic state of uncertainty for all concerned.

The 3Tap business model may or may not have withstood this legal challenge but the salient fact here is that CL faced a lot of uncertainty on the legal issues involved, meaning that it might ultimately have lost on its claims and further meaning that 3Tap's business model would serve as a ready-made way for third parties to gain unfettered access to the CL data, at least until CL were able to obtain a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit or an ultimate victory on its claims.