Aside from memories of those who died, the biggest concern for many survivors is the nagging uncertainty about what comes next.

From Makofsky she sensed a nagging uncertainty of what to do next, coupled with a determination to wait and see nonetheless.

Yet a nagging uncertainty remains.

However, over all his urgency lay the nagging uncertainty: Was China really going to stand by his word and let them go?

Yet there was a nagging uncertainty . . .

He combined piety with a nagging uncertainty about the truth of Christianity.

The feeling of transience would not leave me, and the days began to pass in long nagging uncertainty.

He had thought it through at least a dozen times al- ready that day, but there was always the same nagging uncertainty.

The other is Thomas's nagging uncertainty about who he really is.

A takeover would have served only to perpetuate the nagging uncertainty, they said.