in doubt
idiom
: in a state of being uncertain or unsure
The outcome was in doubt until the final seconds of the game.
The future of the company remains very much in doubt.
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His future with the team is in doubt, but there is still a chance the two parties work things out and reunite for the 2025-26 season.
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Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
Eventually, Legends gets around to the final showdown between Li and Conor, which takes place atop a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, and the outcome is never in doubt.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2025
The result is a country where builders want to build, and buyers want to buy — but the future is too much in doubt.
—Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 28 May 2025
Rapidly expanding school voucher programs pinch state budgets Belgian princess left in doubt about her Harvard future following Trump’s foreign student ban
China criticizes US ban on Harvard’s international students
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Exhausted by cardio?
—South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2025
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Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
Eventually, Legends gets around to the final showdown between Li and Conor, which takes place atop a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, and the outcome is never in doubt.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2025
The result is a country where builders want to build, and buyers want to buy — but the future is too much in doubt.
—Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 28 May 2025
Rapidly expanding school voucher programs pinch state budgets Belgian princess left in doubt about her Harvard future following Trump’s foreign student ban
China criticizes US ban on Harvard’s international students
Health
Exhausted by cardio?
—South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2025
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“In doubt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20doubt. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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