as in ensuring
to make sure, certain, or safe
took steps to insure the timely completion of the project
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Recent Examples of insuring
Healthy people are cheaper for health insurance companies, and the companies rely on their participation to help balance out the costs of insuring sicker people.
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Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Fortunately, there are several ways parents can help mitigate the unavoidable cost of insuring a teenage driver.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Created in 1970, the NCUA is tasked with regulating and insuring credit unions.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 22 July 2025
His work was essential to insuring that recovery work would comply with federal law.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Its very existence reassures consumers and businesses that their money is safe, by insuring deposits of up to $250,000.
—Maria Aspan, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025
Investors with a lot of physical gold likely have the additional hassle of storing it somewhere and insuring it, Baker said.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025
In addition to insuring depositors, the FDIC supervises banks for safety and consumer protection.
—Jason Lalljee, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
No one's denying rebuilding costs have escalated dramatically in recent years, and with those increases come higher costs to insuring properties in the state.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Fortunately, there are several ways parents can help mitigate the unavoidable cost of insuring a teenage driver.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Created in 1970, the NCUA is tasked with regulating and insuring credit unions.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 22 July 2025
His work was essential to insuring that recovery work would comply with federal law.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Its very existence reassures consumers and businesses that their money is safe, by insuring deposits of up to $250,000.
—Maria Aspan, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025
Investors with a lot of physical gold likely have the additional hassle of storing it somewhere and insuring it, Baker said.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025
In addition to insuring depositors, the FDIC supervises banks for safety and consumer protection.
—Jason Lalljee, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
No one's denying rebuilding costs have escalated dramatically in recent years, and with those increases come higher costs to insuring properties in the state.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insuring
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Controlling a fire means ensuring that the fire can't spread or cross the containment line.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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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“Insuring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insuring. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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