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Expressing any sort of ambivalence about parenting is a surefire way to provoke social-media outrage.

Finally, Hochul can preempt a surefire right-wing critique by making a serious effort to reform the MTA’s wasteful practices.

Superhero movies are no longer a surefire win at the box office, and so-called mid-tier films costing about $50 million to $100 million have become more scarce.

Buying a home has often been seen as a surefire path to wealth, with some going to the extreme and saying “Renting is throwing money away.”

“Citizen Nation” vibrates with the same earnest energy that made 2002’s spelling bee documentary “Spellbound” so memorable, although where that documentary uses its competitors’ stories to test whether hard work and self-assuredness are surefire keys to success, this series doesn’t bother with such fantasy.