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mainly US "Will you help me with this?" "Sure I will."

US "I can't do it!" "Sure you can. I'll help you."

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(Definition of sure from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of sure

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When the tracker is not sure that a sequence is being repeated, or when the tracked sequence finishes, it returns control to the neural network.

To be sure, her strategic name-changes could confuse editors and reviewers.

To be sure, the conference tried to clarify things into four strands, each with three sessions of three papers.

To be sure, this will require the use of a new set of tasks.

To be sure, virtually any work of history or social science invokes some species of causal argument.

I am still not sure what kind of tool was used to make these ornaments, but they are not made with the fingertips.

There are, to be sure, fewer inscriptions and no very lengthy ones, but that too reflects the relative poverty of public culture.

In this world, students asked these types of questions all the time, but none of us were really sure of the answers.

Another advantage of depot medication is that staff can be sure that medication has been received by the patient.

It seems quite probable that at least some of these are increasing in frequency, though it is difficult to be sure of this.

Which definitions are used for measurement may be less important than being sure that the definitions used for evaluation of individual patients are applied consistently.

It is shown that the weights are an important factor to make sure the results are realistic.

To be sure, the eighteenth-century concept of progress should not be reduced to that ideology.

I am sure you will agree that we have enjoyed a most stimulating series of papers during this joint session.

The controversy is over the practice of drawing district lines for the purpose of making sure that candidates from under-represented groups get elected.

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