Sue Perkins

As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself - and I would miss the chance to seize it.

English Comedian

Alfred Stieglitz

We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.

American Photographer

Benjamin Tucker

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

American Activist

Alfred de Vigny

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

French Poet

Albert Camus

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

French Philosopher

Umberto Eco

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

Italian Novelist

Edwin Markham

It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.

American Poet

P. J. O'Rourke

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

American Comedian

Gilbert Murray

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

British Diplomat

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

British Statesman

Use 'doubtless' to stress a very high degree of certainty or likelihood about something.

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It's often used when predicting something that seems sure to happen or when it's a foregone conclusion.

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'Doubtless' is formal and fits best in official or literary contexts rather than casual conversation.

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 using a lot of these tools. And doubtless the intelligence communities of the world are doing the same work today for the attacks of last week. Now, this is the part of the talk where I tell you what's going to come as a result of all of this, but I'm running out of time, which is good,

Clay Shirky: Institutions...

 capacity networks and doubtless that's the right thing to do but it may not be the only thing to do it's worth scratching beneath the surface of what radio spectrum and spectrum management is to better understand the possibilities now when I say management and spectrum it makes

The future of...

 and doubtless, or doublet, and redouble, and doubloon. It turns out that if we look into their history, we can see that they both derive from the same Latin forms. The meaning of double, two, is reflected in a deep understanding of doubt.

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 While Ives admired the scenery in his report he wrote, "The region is, of course, altogether valueless. "Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last, "party of whites to visit this profitless locality."

A Brief History of Grand...

 sacks and the wasp believes doubtless a little shaken only to be duped once again

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