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English word

sure

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /ʃʊə(r)/US /ʃʊr/
adjective

confident that you know something or that you are right

adverb

used to say ‘yes’ to somebody

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Jeff has stated an audacious proposition to be sure, but as Al Albert Einstein once observed, if at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

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