ensured

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Landing the Rome trophy last week ensured he completed the full set of nine ATP Masters 1000 titles - known as the 'career Golden Masters'.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

On Saturday morning, police officers ensured the pair remained inside the vehicle transporting them until it had fully entered the courthouse garage and the doors had closed.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers died in the conflict that followed, but the Union’s victory ensured reunification and slavery’s abolition nationwide.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

“You put into me the perception of the incomparable,” Bettany version says in a bitterly mournful prayer at the end of the second episode, “and then ensured that I would know myself forever mediocre.”

From Salon • May 16, 2026

Cleopatra’s open hostility toward King Herod and his suspicion of her ensured that the queen received a somewhat frosty reception in Judea.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby