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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Some of Borseth’s priorities if elected will include ensuring school security and safety, addressing chronic absenteeism and ending off-cycle, odd-year school board elections.—
Talia McWright,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
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Ultimately, companies should be integrating crisis scenarios into risk management frameworks and ensuring that potential threats are considered in strategic planning.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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No date had been fixed as yet, one of them kept assuring me — only to have the official call me in late October and say, in very apologetic tones, that the landing had suddenly happened nearly overnight, because ASN’s ship had been in the area and had some time to spare.—
Samanth Subramanian,
The Dial,
14 Oct. 2025
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Mix in front-office executives assuring playing time to certain players, regardless of performance, and turmoil in the clubhouse could have easily brewed — and justifiably so.—
Katie Woo,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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In this recipe, the bread is sliced vertically instead of horizontally, guaranteeing that each slice of bread has garlic butter.—
Malaka Gharib,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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In July, the Pentagon also struck an unprecedented deal to buy a $400 million stock in rare earth company MP Materials, while guaranteeing a ten-year floor price of double prevailing market levels for the strategically crucial rare earth magnet neodymium-praseodymium.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Insuring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insuring. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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