Big Game Block In Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors were neck-and-neck in the last few minutes. And when Andre Iguodala looked certain to score an easy layup in the crucial final stages of this championship-deciding game, it could have been the beginning of the end for the Cavs.

Both the frontrunner, the former mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the main challenger are women, meaning Mexico is almost certain to choose its first woman president.

In other words, everything is certain to be a bit awful - a truth we are vainly striving to deny in our furious search for what we think of as the right choice.

digits, but because the digits are random and unending, I'm certain to find it if I

And does this mean easy to avoid, certain to happen, or hard to understand?

but that we were certain to burn at least half of it before we would call it quits and just give them the cash back.

and she had never forgotten that if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

In 2012, British Prime Minister David Cameron finally agreed to a referendum, saying, "This United Kingdom can never hold a country within it without its consent." What he meant was, "I'm allowing this because it's certain to fail." Polls consistently show that only a minority of Scots would vote for actual independence.

That people would fix something broken used to be a given - assumed to be true or certain to happen.

So we can use these verbs to determine if something is likely to happen or certain to have happened, whether or not something is possible or whether or not we have the ability to do something, whether or not we have the permission to do something,