ensuring

present participle of ensure
as in assuring
to make sure, certain, or safe regulations that ensure the wholesomeness of our food

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Recent Examples of ensuring The control tower is primarily used for search-and-rescue operations involving fishermen at sea, as well as ensuring the security of maritime trade. Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 15 July 2026 Colombian star Greeicy will also join for three dates, ensuring the tour is full of powerhouse women. Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026 Line Up the Circular Saw Blade Rest the circular saw’s shoe on the work material, ensuring that the shoe is sitting flat. Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2026 In the face of heavy rain, these precautions can make a significant difference in ensuring your safety on the road. Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 14 July 2026 Part of Verhoeve’s focus will be ensuring that products match demand, looking at insights such as customer feedback. Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 13 July 2026 But even that law is largely focused on ensuring the proper facility and environment for grooming, not regulating groomer technique or experience. Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026 This reshuffling of genetic material creates new combinations of genes, ensuring that each reproductive cell—and therefore each offspring—is genetically unique. Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 July 2026 Product is key here, with balms and fly-away sticks ensuring the perfect frizz-less look. Odeya Pinkus, InStyle, 8 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ensuring
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  • Extramarital sexting is not ideal, of course, but then there was Platner’s wife assuring us that the couple had healed.
    Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
  • These incidents rarely appear in the statistics politicians and bureaucrats cite when assuring the public that downtown is moving in the right direction.
    Jonathan Beaton, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
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  • The bill is designed to force Congress to confront Social Security’s long-term financing problem by guaranteeing that lawmakers vote on a solvency plan.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
  • In addition, their style of play makes broad use of their outrageous attacking options, virtually guaranteeing a supply of chances for a player who can score almost any type of goal from anywhere in the attacking third.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 8 July 2026

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“Ensuring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ensuring. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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