Certain
Certain adjective - Known but not named.
Pending
Pending adjective - Not yet settled or decided.
Usage example: a decision is pending about whether to buy computers or sports equipment with this money
Both words in one sentence
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Man, what kind of girl first volunteers for near certain death, then has the audacity and sheer nerve to tell stories while having sex with a pending execution hanging over her.
Source: Heroic Spirit -
In the third game, doing enough damage to a MA quickly enough would stun it and open the opportunity to destroy one of its hardpoints, shrinking its maximum health, negating any Regenerating Health it has pending and possibly taking certain weapons or attacks offline.
- On a THIRD hand, certain rides are not connected to the rest of the Fast Pass system and do not keep track of the "one pending Fast Pass at a time" rule; with inside knowledge of which ones and enough Loophole Abuse, you can have two or three Fast Passes going on at all times.
Source: Right on Queue
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