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For much of this full-day session Ms Sturgeon was on sure ground, defending her pandemic approach.

From BBC Jan. 31, 2024

But then there’s the other half of the story, and here the show is on less sure ground.

From New York Times Mar. 10, 2022

The author is on less sure ground when he discusses Lincoln’s reaction to the murder of Elijah Lovejoy, the abolitionist editor killed while defending his printing press from a mob in 1837.

From Washington Post Jul. 14, 2017

Apple is on less sure ground when it argues, as Olson did, that the government can't make it "re-create code" or "change the iPhone."

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2016

The doctor felt himself now on sure ground.

From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter




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