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sure

/ʃʊɹ/ adverb A2
  1. Without doubt, certainly. · Sure he's coming! Why wouldn't he?· "Did you kill that bear yourself?" ―"I sure did!"
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“For,” he said to himself, “if it is the head, I am sure I shall not be given a heart, since a head has no heart of its own and therefore cannot feel for me.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 72 · B2
“Yes, to be sure I am.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 16 · C1
“I am sure _I_ know none so handsome; but in the gallery upstairs you will see a finer, larger picture of him than this.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 276 · B2
Elizabeth could not help saying, “It is very much to his credit, I am sure, that you should think so.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 277 · B2

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