surefire
Example Sentences
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Even die-hard fans pay little attention to the second round of the draft, when surefire superstars are long gone and many players selected don’t even make their teams’ rosters.
“With the industry unstable, what we could see was the culture that Hollywood has always relied on when in need of a surefire hit,” says Ramón.
From Seattle Times
“They think of surefire hits as a code for no diversity, for white-led. It’s something that they’re comfortable with.”
From Seattle Times
"In an era of economic uncertainty intensified by the pandemic, studios pushed for theatrical 'surefire hits' that relied on nostalgia and previous intellectual property," said the report by the University of California, Los Angeles.
From Reuters
For one of the first times as a major leaguer, Kershaw was forced to take a hard look at his long-term future — to start mapping out his career in a way the surefire Hall of Famer hadn’t needed to before.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
