ensures

VERB

guarantee; make secure

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assure establish insure protect provide safeguard secure

STRONG

arrange certify cinch clinch confirm effect guard okay warrant

WEAK

lock on lock up make certain make safe make sure nail down put on ice set out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

endanger harm hurt injure

STRONG

contradict deny forget ignore invalidate neglect reject repudiate veto

Example Sentences

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It plans to build a giant event hall downtown named after founder L. Ron Hubbard; blocking road access ensures visitor safety.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026

Such emotional familiarity ensures that even a quick dinner over sandwiches in the park can provide us with conversational carte blanche, a space to decompress and demystify without judgment.

From Salon • Jul. 5, 2026

He said the benefit of an application layer like Ontology is that it ensures the LLM doesn’t touch the customer’s underlying data.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026

"We hope it ensures that no woman is ever again made to feel unsafe in her workplace for speaking the truth," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

Facts are a linguistic device which ensures that experience always trumps authority and reason.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton