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But about one thing Clo is dead sure: her place in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

I know for dead sure that’s not so.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

First, none of we economists know anything for dead sure.

From Forbes • Aug. 1, 2014

That's how I planned to end this piece, back when I sat on the bank overlooking the 14th hole on Sunday, dead sure that Jordan Spieth would win the U.S.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

He'd seen his duty a dead sure thing, And went for it thar and then; And Christ ain't a-goin' to be too hard On a man that died for men.

From The Coo-ee Reciter by Various




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