Adjective
a sure-enough ghost town that is a relic of the gold rush days
the inventor showed that he did have a sure-enough death ray
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Adverb
And sure enough, Gates isn’t just excited to see Boateng playing on the court.—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2024 Related article Meta is accused of censoring a non-profit newspaper and an independent journalist who criticized the company
But sure enough, when Kabas posted her own link to the column on Threads, Meta flagged it as malicious content and took it down.—Allison Morrow, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024 And sure enough, there is one on the theater’s new schedule.—David Lyman, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2024 Little Elliotte, on her birthday, runs down there to go retrieve her planes to come back and do it again, and sure enough Wyatt was locked and loaded.—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024 And sure enough, the twentieth century witnessed the creation of considerably more operas with plots centered on the death of children, Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa (1904) and Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes (1945) and Curlew River (1964) prominent among them.—Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024 But sure enough, here’s a call from Coach (John) Fox.—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024 And sure enough, the Falcons made their first two 3-point attempts and took an 8-6 lead.—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2024 Elizabeth and Joshua Colbert Elizabeth found their class photo — and sure enough, Joshua was in the photo.—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
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