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The Sounders are looking like shoo-ins to reach the Major League Soccer play-offs as a bare minimum.—Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025 But as travel demand has shifted, and in some cases customers have become altogether unpredictable, making the third quarter less of a shoo-in moneymaker for airlines.—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2025 On the very day the VMA nominations were announced, Justin Bieber dropped a music video that’s a shoo-in for sweetest of the year.—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Aug. 2025 The rookie has been rock solid and would be a shoo-in as a practice-squad candidate.—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for shoo-in
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