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And if you look at Hoffa and you look at Jack, I’m not sure exactly what they did up top because it accentuated — Jimmy, his eyes were a little recessed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
They must also make sure creditors are paid back as much money as possible.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“It’s a completely illogical experience, and we do it because we are not so sure of ourselves.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Mr. Kolker has written the biography of a family, making sure that each member is memorialized as a full person before disease enters the picture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
I’m not sure if it’s a twin thing, but I can always tell when my brother is about to start some mess.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The findings come as young people may see stock-market returns as providing a surer path to wealth than paychecks from a 9-to-5 job.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Round after round, the Hurricanes have knocked off teams that seemed surer bets to make the championship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
If they even had a sliver of doubt before the Munich showdown against PSG they will be even surer now.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
A perimeter defense on the western side of the Atlantic, he argued, would be surer and less likely to produce permanent American entanglement in European affairs.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
On the other hand no garage man who had seen him ever came forward--and perhaps he had an easier, surer way of finding out what he wanted to know.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Censorship, and worse, are the surest way to elevate an artist and their work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
If you were a songwriter in the 1930s, one of the surest routes to immortality was to have Fred Astaire introduce your work on screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Once upon a time, platforming a trend on TV was the surest way to kill it.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
And he became a target for parodists, the surest sign of fame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
He somehow lost or abandoned his surest and quickest means of escape from the city: the one-eyed horse Booth had bought.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
