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English word

guarantee

B2Academic AWL-7Frequent NGSL-2
UK /ˌɡærənˈtiː/US /ˌɡærənˈtiː/
noun

a formal promise that you will do something or that something will happen

verb

to promise to do something; to promise something will happen

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The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED
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the willingness to do something where there are no guarantees ...

The Power of Vulnerability

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The joke I make all the time is that excitement is guaranteed.

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because one of the things you can definitely guarantee is that where there are no customers, there are also no competitors, and nobody cares about you.

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