as in lock
one that is certain to succeed
since he was trying his first case, the assistant district attorney was assigned a burglary case that was a slam dunk
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But Skydance, to me, didn’t feel like some sort of slam dunk.
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Josef Adalian, Vulture, 13 June 2024
All roads lead to the big state championship, where Freeland scored another slam dunk: the pre-production schedule perfectly aligned with an actual 2023 state tournament.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024
Still, Sohn believes bipartisan support for the ACP should make reauthorizing it a political slam dunk for Democrats.
—Lillian Rizzo, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
Read on to understand why Jordan’s journey to offloading the colossal property was not exactly a slam dunk.
—Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2024
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Josef Adalian, Vulture, 13 June 2024
All roads lead to the big state championship, where Freeland scored another slam dunk: the pre-production schedule perfectly aligned with an actual 2023 state tournament.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024
Still, Sohn believes bipartisan support for the ACP should make reauthorizing it a political slam dunk for Democrats.
—Lillian Rizzo, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
Read on to understand why Jordan’s journey to offloading the colossal property was not exactly a slam dunk.
—Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2024
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While nothing is guaranteed in sports, Mahomes throwing for a single yard on Monday Night Football is close to a lock.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Katie Hafner: In this way, tamoxifen acts like a key broken off in a lock.Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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Amid all of these challenges, the only sure thing is that the benefits of migration–like all traits and behaviors honed by evolution–must outweigh (or at least equal) the downsides.Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024
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If history is any indicator, success in avoiding a recession is no sure thing.Bill Stone, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
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And even more so now, the idea that the quietly revolutionary stance is to embrace doubt rather than certainty.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
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Your certainty that there was a snub in repaying your kindness with inferior tuna perplexes Miss Manners.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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