sure thing
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But if doing better than your peers is enough then that’s close to a sure thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“It’s a sure thing, which feels better emotionally than attempting something with a 50/50 likelihood. Taking home $65,000 feels better than taking a risk where you go home with zero.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
It seemed a sure thing a few weeks ago that Abdul El-Sayed, the insurgent progressive challenger in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, was leading the race going away.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026
He was no childhood prodigy, no sure thing.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Given the assumption that experiments would be carried out with technical perfection, the vaccine was a sure thing.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
