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It’s one of the few places you can be sure no one is wearing a wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Make sure they know how to report inappropriate or harmful content, how to block accounts that share it and encourage them not to share it themselves.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
He had joked with reporters that he hadn’t been sure if rumors of his call-up were true because “as everyone knows, you can’t believe what’s in the paper.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Buy term life insurance and disability coverage, write a will and make sure your beneficiary designations name the right people.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
“Thank goodness! But I’m sure they didn’t just let it go,” Aunt J says.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The findings come as young people may see stock-market returns as providing a surer path to wealth than paychecks from a 9-to-5 job.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
He was reporting to those behind him with a voice that sounded older and surer than 14.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
A surer indicator is to observe what’s popular in the current marketplace.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
If they even had a sliver of doubt before the Munich showdown against PSG they will be even surer now.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
The more I thought about our differences, the surer I felt that I could protect you better than she could.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
Censorship, and worse, are the surest way to elevate an artist and their work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
If you were a songwriter in the 1930s, one of the surest routes to immortality was to have Fred Astaire introduce your work on screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Once upon a time, platforming a trend on TV was the surest way to kill it.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
But his instincts made him one of the surest spotters and nurturers of talent in pop history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
If the following stories converge to make some larger point, the surest way to reach it is through the stories themselves.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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