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Examples of ensure in a Sentence
- A combination of … personal courage, dashing leadership from the front, willingness to share the toughest rigours suffered by the ordinary soldiers, and a liberal dose of sheer good fortune ensured his stature as a great general. —Paul Cartledge, History Today, July 2004
- Indeed, even though she's been off the mainstream radar for more than a decade, her passionate love for and commitment to rock & roll have ensured that she's managed to make a steady living. —Tom Sinclair, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2000
- At 20, [Kobe] Bryant is already living the modern American dream, a $70 million man on the NBA's glamour team in the nation's starriest city. His acrobatic moves make him the envy of teenage boys and his good looks and megawatt smile a heartthrob for teenage girls, ensuring his status as one of the NBA's premier pitchmen … —Allison Samuels et al., Newsweek, 31 May 1999
They took steps to ensure the safety of the passengers.
regulations that ensure the wholesomeness of our food
Recent Examples of ensure from the Web
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The report detailed a host of failures at seemingly every level of the district and offered more than a dozen suggestions to help ensure students are safe.
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The number of cards that falls alternately from each side varies, and that imperfection helps ensure the randomness.
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According to a press release from the turnpike commission, the campaign helped to ensure no one was killed in work zones last year and there was a 21.5 percent drop in work-zone traffic crashes last year.
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In the lead-up to the upcoming elections, many analysts are still insisting that Western countries should interfere in the government formation process that follows to help ensure a moderate coalition of a mix of Shi’ite, Kurdish and Sunni elites.
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Neither woman was able to afford the standard 10 percent fee that most Texas bail bond companies require to help ensure defendants’ presence in court.
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Now the Kyle Petty Charity Ride serves as the primary fundraising vehicle for Victory Junction each year and helps to ensure thousands of children have a place to escape and find their new best friend.
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To help ensure that Uber's fleets can operate safely and efficiently in busy urban areas, the company has teamed up with NASA to gather data on air traffic and safety issues from a research facility near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
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Strain said the license helps ensure people are properly trained to cut flowers and help prevent the introduction and spread of diseases and pests.
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Do you ensure or insure?
There is considerable confusion about whether ensure and insure are distinct words, variants of the same word, or some combination of the two. They are in fact different words, but with sufficient overlap in meaning and form as to create uncertainty as to which should be used when. We define ensure as “to make sure, certain, or safe” and one sense of insure, “to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions,” is quite similar. But insure has the additional meaning “to provide or obtain insurance on or for,” which is not shared by ensure. Some usage guides recommend using insure in financial contexts (as in “she insured her book collection for a million dollars”) and ensure in the general sense “to make certain” (as in “she ensured that the book collection was packed well”).
Origin and Etymology of ensure
Synonym Discussion of ensure
ensure, insure, assure, secure mean to make a thing or person sure. ensure, insure, and assure are interchangeable in many contexts where they indicate the making certain or inevitable of an outcome, but ensure may imply a virtual guarantee
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- the government has ensured the safety of the refugees
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- careful planning should insure the success of the party
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- I assure you that no harm will be done
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- sent reinforcements to secure their position
ENSURE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of ensure for English Language Learners
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: to make (something) sure, certain, or safe
ENSURE Defined for Kids
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