ensures

VERB

guarantee; make secure

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assure establish insure protect provide safeguard secure

STRONG

arrange certify cinch clinch confirm effect guard okay warrant

WEAK

lock on lock up make certain make safe make sure nail down put on ice set out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

endanger harm hurt injure

STRONG

contradict deny forget ignore invalidate neglect reject repudiate veto

Example Sentences

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That minimizes the gift-tax hit for the founder and ensures that each piece of the stack can get its own $15 million exclusion when the company is worth more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

The expansion of its SCAs ensures a more durable floor for Micron’s earnings and margins, Sur said in a Thursday note.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

"We hope it ensures that no woman is ever again made to feel unsafe in her workplace for speaking the truth," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

Heroism’s great and all, but nothing ensures immortality like putting on a good show.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026

But the curse of knowledge ensures that most writers will overestimate how standard a term has become and how wide the community is that has learned it.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker