Definition of surefire
: certain to get successful or expected results
- a surefire recipe
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Examples of surefire in a Sentence
The movie is a surefire hit with teenagers.
There is no surefire way to predict the outcome.
Recent Examples of surefire from the Web
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From being overly pessimistic, England is now woefully overconfident, which is a surefire path to heartache if things don’t turn out as expected.
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Smallwood was a surefire tackler in his UConn days.
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James McCann: Not likely McCann hasn’t progressed quite like the industry expected and can’t be viewed as a surefire No.
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Others learned the likely outcome of public, potentially market-moving polls before they were published, offering surefire trades.
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But just adding modern features and fun amenities hasn’t been a surefire strategy for convincing local governments and financing sources that new malls are needed.
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The most surefire way to avoid sea bather’s eruption is to stay out of the water.
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And that’s a surefire way to get into deeper trouble.
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Thirty-five cars trying to make the show is a surefire sign IndyCar’s five-year plan is working.
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First Known Use of surefire
1846
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SUREFIRE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of surefire for English Language Learners
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: certain not to fail : sure to be successful
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