to assure
/əˈʃʊɹ/
verbto guarantee the occurrence of something
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1. Selling is assuring.
2. Your victory is assured.
3. Your victory is assured.
4. Your victory is assured.
5. So that no level of certification, even the highest level, the platinum rating, assures health protection.
to check on
/tʃˈɛk ˈɑːn/
verbto check the wellbeing, truth, or condition of someone or something
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to count on
/kˈaʊnt ˈɑːn/
verbto rely on or to put trust in something or someone
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1. Six-month time period, count on the y-axis.
2. Count on the drink with the aunties.
3. To count on.
4. To count on.
5. Those kids are counting on us!
to presume
/pɹɪˈzum/
verbto think that something is the case without having any proof
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1. - I presume.
2. Mrs. Hillard, I presume?
3. My lectures are going to presume no special knowledge on your part.
4. Prof: This course presumes no prior knowledge of its subject matter.
5. He almost always presumes
to toss
/ˈtɔs/
verbto make a decision by throwing a coin in the air and guessing which of its sides will be facing upward when it lands
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1. Toss that box, boom.
2. Toss a coin.
3. Tossing the granola bars.
4. The bra toss. -
5. - Toss a pancake.
to underestimate
/ˈəndɝˈɛstəˌmeɪt/, /ˈəndɝˈɛstəmət/
verbto regard something or someone as smaller or less important than they really are
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1. In both of these cases, the official unemployment rate underestimates the problems in the labor market.
2. The government has consistently underestimated the death toll here.
3. The lesson, never underestimate the power for failure.
4. Too many candidates underestimate the internal interview process.
5. So many CEOs underestimate the amount of time.
to weaken
/ˈwikən/
verbto become less resolved or determined; to cause someone to become less resolved or certain
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1. So our bones and muscles weaken.
2. It weakens the comparison the nicer.
3. It weakens the comparison the nicer.
4. Anger, weakens the liver.
5. Weaken your limiting beliefs.
assured
/əˈʃʊɹd/
adjectivedisplaying confidence in oneself and one's capabilities
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1. So the world, at least at that point in time, had avoided a mutually assured destruction.
2. But the fundamental question, mutual assured destruction, the answer is yes.
3. You’re more assured of yourself and who you are.
4. When you press the button at a crossing, you feel more assured that the light will eventually switch to green.
5. Self trust can be summed up as the assured reliance on your character, ability, strength and truth.
concrete
/ˈkɑnkɹit/, /kənˈkɹit/
adjectiveaccording to facts instead of opinions
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1. The major player for sand usage is concrete.
2. The construction is concrete.
3. The building is concrete.
4. Depending on its weight, concrete can displace many cubic meters of water.
5. But concrete also has a large downside.
doubtful
/ˈdaʊtfəɫ/
adjectiveimprobable or unlikely to happen or be the case
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1. Her husband was doubtful about this.
2. Looks doubtful in there.
3. The result is not doubtful.
4. - I'm doubtful.
5. Are you doubtful?
dubious
/ˈdubiəs/
adjective(of a person) unsure of the credibility of something; uncertain whether or not something is good
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1. Some of the others, the ministry, their motivations are dubious.
2. Alright, next up from Zelda: Breath of the Wild, we have dubious food.
3. The claims of human-alien cooperation are also dubious at best.
4. The Legion’s summons to Gaul is dubious.
5. The real history of the Trojan War is dubious at best.
inconclusive
/ˌɪnkənˈkɫusɪv/
adjectivenot producing a clear result or decision
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1. The first one was inconclusive.
2. The battle in the center between the legionaries and the phalagists was inconclusive.
3. Their findings were inconclusive.
4. The video was inconclusive, all right?
5. The video is inconclusive, alright?
robust
/ɹoʊˈbəst/
adjectivedisplaying forcefulness and determination
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1. Scale-based advantages, especially in distribution, are incredibly robust.
2. So this finding is very robust.
3. Employment is robust in these jobs, employment growth.
4. The research is robust.
5. Modern commercial aircrafts are very robust.
set
/ˈsɛt/
adjectiveprepared for something or to do something; likely to do something
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1. Many years ago, people used the sun to set their clocks.
2. You can do the workouts with any brand of equipment, and many of the workouts require just a set of dumbbells or no equipment at all.
3. Set realistic goals.
4. Set the mood.
5. Some nice historical video footage sets the stage for each individual challenge.
skeptical
/ˈskɛptəkəɫ/, /ˈskɛptɪkəɫ/
adjectivedoubting that something is the case
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1. Initially, other geologists were skeptical.
2. Of course, scientists were skeptical.
3. The court, understandably, was skeptical.
4. Online sleuths remain skeptical.
5. Other researchers are more skeptical.
speculative
/ˈspɛkjəɫətɪv/
adjectiveaccording to opinions or guesses instead of facts
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1. Like all current theories of everything, that equation is speculative.
2. Go-to-market slides are most undoubtedly speculative.
3. One of them is speculative.
4. that's speculative.
5. And the mechanism was quite speculative.
suspected
/səˈspɛktɪd/
adjective(particularly of something bad) assumed to have happened or be the case without having any proof
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1. They're SUSPECTED of spying ON emails and communications of top government officials and there's fear
2. And a development in another SUSPECTED police involved death.
3. Suspected infected people with their families.
4. On december 28 the Obama Administration took a first step by EJECTING 35 SUSPECTED intelligence operatives and imposing other sanctions On Russia.
5. But in September 2020, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former senior adviser and self-described friend of Melania's, confirmed to BBC what everyone more or less suspected.
tentative
/ˈtɛnətɪv/, /ˈtɛntətɪv/
adjective(of an agreement, etc.) indefinite or uncertain because one might make some changes to it in the future
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1. This evidence is tentative, very controversial.
2. The stronger version is tentative.
3. The misfit's mother leads the tentative group.
4. They've read the tentative.
5. And the judge turned around her tentative.
undeniable
/ˌəndɪˈnaɪəbəɫ/
adjectiveabsolutely certain or true; unable to be denied or questioned
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1. His voice was undeniable.
2. Facts are undeniable.
3. This phenomenon is undeniable.
4. The popularity of coffee is undeniable.
5. Bernadette’s chemistry with Helberg's Howard Wolowitz was undeniable.
to be (only / just / ) a matter of time
/biː ɐ mˈæɾɚɹ ʌv tˈaɪm/
phraseto certainly happen at some point in the future
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1. And with millennials dining out 30% more often than other generations, it may just be a matter of time before Sparky joins them for a night out.
2. But some say it's only a matter of time.
3. Some analysts say it's just a matter of time before Amazon finds clever ways to reconfigure its business models and partnerships to comply.
4. But experts agree that it's only a matter of time.
5. Today it may just be a matter of time until one building goes the extra mile.
or what
/ɔːɹ wˈʌt/
phraseused to show one's uncertainty of something
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1. But if you think people are usually arguing over how these artworks actually look or what they represent, think again.
2. But if you think people are usually arguing over how these artworks actually look or what they represent, think again.
3. One problem is interference, or what psychologists call the "Stroop effect."
4. That night, or what was left of it, I could not sleep.
5. Now can you tell me who or what that woman was?'
to stand a chance
/stˈænd ɐ tʃˈæns/
phraseto have a likelihood of success or achieving a desired outcome
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1. So, does AEW even stand a chance?
2. And Mercedes says it plans to make AMG versions of at least some of its electric vehicle lineup, which stand a chance of being more profitable.
3. Changes have to be made to education here in America if we’re to stand a chance of improving things.
4. While the squid fight back ferociously, they probably don't stand a chance, but they do leave permanent marks on their killer's skin.
5. Wasps are fierce and may seem invulnerable, but if a swarm makes its way to their colonies, they don't even stand a chance.
there is no question of
/ðɛɹ ɪz nˈoʊ kwˈɛstʃən ʌv/
sentenceused of something that is impossible to happen or cannot be true
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1. There's no question of that.
2. There was no question of his guilt.
3. For Richard Nixon, there was no question of his devotion to the campaign and his intellect.
4. If we can get that down, if we don't get it there, but we get the numbers so small that there is no question of who actually the WINNER is, I think that'll be HELPFUL, Really Remove a lot of those questions that people might have.
5. It was by NATO, again without the permission of the UN Security Council because the Russians and Chinese were supporting Serbian sides so there was no question of international authorization.
you can never tell
/juː kæn nˈɛvɚ tˈɛl/
sentenceused to say that one can never be sure of something
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1. Because you can never tell quite how far it goes.
2. yeah, you never can tell.
3. And you never can tell when there's a certain amount of pomposity or somebody who's making you play a particular role and if you just shake hands with somebody it's how do you do?
4. You can never tell what the source of innovation will be from someone at Harvard.
5. I can't, you can never tell lookin' at people's faces, whether they're lactating or not.
guesswork
/ˈɡɛsˌwɝk/
nounthe process of guessing something due to insufficient information; the result of this process
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1. "Take the guesswork out of your essay."
2. Teige Hanley takes the guesswork out of good skincare.
3. No guesswork, no speculation is allowed.
4. So it also takes the guesswork out of cooking.
5. Avoid the guesswork, avoid the overwhelm with YouTube.
hesitation
/ˌhɛzəˈteɪʃən/
nounthe fact of being uncertain about something
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1. But her mom had some hesitations.
2. - What's her hesitation?
3. Without hesitation, Jake MacKinnon's mother, Janice, selflessly donated her kidney to Kalem's father.
4. Number two: hesitation is bad.
5. - He really said no hesitation.
outlook
/ˈaʊtˌɫʊk/
nounsomeone or something's probable future; what is likely to occur
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1. They have different outlooks.
2. My outlook is bright.
3. Outlook for Ray is guarded.
4. Outlook for Twinkie is pretty good.
5. Positive outlook Vergara has zero time for haters.
paradox
/ˈpɛɹəˌdɑks/
nouna logically contradictory statement that might actually be true
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1. It can include paradox.
2. So here's the paradox.
3. The paradox is pretty well-known.
4. Now, here is the paradox.
5. The new one now sports new paradoxes.
uncertainty
/ənˈsɝtənti/
nounsomething about which one cannot be certain; a situation that causes one to feel unsure
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1. We hate uncertainty.
2. Uncertainty is different.
3. He emphasizes uncertainty.
4. Fear- inducing uncertainty.
5. We embrace uncertainty.
easily
/ˈizəɫi/
adverbvery likely to happen or be the case
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1. A uniform is one way whereby the workers can be easily identified by others.
2. Art thieves believe they can easily steal something from a small museum without being seen.
3. I can easily get in through her attic window.
4. Lift the chest easily
5. The non-human scanning software can easily misread jokes or sarcasm.
supposedly
/səˈpoʊzədɫi/
adverbbased on what is believed or claimed not on facts
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1. One country, two systems supposedly guarantees a high-degree of autonomy from China.
2. Supposedly exposing the CIA activity.
3. This glacier supposedly contains all explanations of the past.
4. Crypto winter is supposedly here.
5. The Syracusan tyrant supposedly sent an envoy to the Persian king with gifts of gold, as well as earth and water, the traditional symbols of submission to Persia.
as luck would have it
/æz lˈʌk wʊdhɐv ɪt/
adverbsaid to mean that a good or bad event occurred by chance
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