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 Controlling a fire means ensuring that the fire can't spread or cross the containment line. Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Some of these technologies are essential for ensuring the proper functioning of the service or website and cannot be disabled, while others are optional but serve to enhance the user experience in various ways. Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2025 This approach reshapes how the model interprets risky content at its foundation, ensuring safeguards remain intact even when efficiency demands that layers be removed. Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025 The city called the effort a critical step in modernizing Fort Lauderdale’s water infrastructure and ensuring higher-quality service to homes and businesses once the new Prospect Lake Clean Water Center and Prospect Wellfield improvements are complete. Sergio Candido, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025 But a key challenge for businesses is ensuring that the benefits of these tools are broadly shared across the workforce. Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025 The San Diego River Park Foundation does trash pickups near the San Diego River to prevent that trash from going into the ocean, and also ensuring that the local habitats are clean. Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025 Kowalski said beachgoers can also help by picking up after dogs and ensuring babies wear swim diapers. Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025 When asked if higher compensation or meaningful work is the most critical factor to ensuring employee happiness and engagement in the future, 62% of small business owners said better pay, according to the Forbes Research 2025 Small Business Survey. Nick Clunn, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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  • Wildlife art can be confining, constricting, customary; contemporary artists are assuring its survival and vibrancy by breaking from the traditional.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • In particular, O’Neill proposed doing away with FDA’s 60-year-old mandate of assuring new drugs are both safe and effective in treating disease.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
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  • When Northern Democrats would not agree to militant pro-slavery demands such as passage of a federal slave code guaranteeing slavery’s westward expansion, Southern Democrats walked out.
    Time, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Shrewd dealmaker Anutin has been a mainstay in Thai politics throughout years of turmoil, positioning his Bhumjaithai party strategically between warring elites embroiled in an intractable power struggle and guaranteeing its place in a succession of coalition governments.
    Panarat Thepgumpanat, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Ensuring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ensuring. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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