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to be sure
Idioms and Phrases
Undoubtedly, certainly, of course, as in The coat is expensive, to be sure, but it's bound to last longer than a cheap one . This idiom was first recorded in 1657.Example Sentences
The system is rigged, to be sure, but shows like TLC’s reality programming play a part in only showing severely disabled people who are independently wealthy.
“But now we’re getting to another level of this kind of directed arson and violence, which, to be sure, has an intimidation effect.â€
It’s a better than fair bet, to be sure, that it’s all about money.
Still, the team keeps inching the rest of the way to the marker, to be sure.
There seems no way to be sure what else may or may not have been purged from the site.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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