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a sure-enough ghost town that is a relic of the gold rush days
the inventor showed that he did have a sure-enough death ray
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Stiller mentions a trip to see a bullfight in Spain, and sure enough we’re treated to footage of young Stiller yelling at a toreador from the stands.—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025 And sure enough, this male athlete beat me, beat all my teammates and that continued to happen the entire season.—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025 And sure enough, Hamm (a frequent SNL host himself) popped up in the audience wearing that Hawaiian shirt and bucket hat, still grooving to the music.—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2025 But sure enough, the artist born Frederick John Philip Gibson enlisted Amy Taylor and company for his drum n’ bass-inflected latest single, harnessing the group’s energy and then exploding it with Gesaffelstein-like sirens and typically all-over-the-place vocal triggers.—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sure-enough
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