make sure

idiom

: to find out or do something so that one has no doubt about whether something is true, correct, will happen, etc.

Make sure (that) you turn the oven off.

They made sure everyone knew where they were supposed to be.

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Thomas and Yee also recommend that people leaders have a conversation with the company’s leadership team, double down on their investment in managers, adopt a data-forward culture, and make sure that senior male leaders in particular are modeling positive behavior. —Azure Gilman, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024

Toward this, make sure to foster an ownership mindset among your employees. —Craig West, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024

More than a decade after tying the knot, the couple make sure never to take each other for granted with Meester telling E! —Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024

McGhee, who is now a security consultant, said the purpose of the program was to make sure that recruits had exposure to live physical confrontation, since not everyone had been in a schoolyard brawl or fight. —USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2024