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for certain

Also, for sure. Without doubt. For example, I can't tell for certain if this is the right color, or I know for sure that she has a new car. The first term dates from the early 1300s. The variant, dating from the late 1500s, is also used colloquially to express agreement or assert the truth of a statement, as in Mary is really bossy.—That's for sure, or Are you coming to the party?—For sure I am.

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But it’s also possible that federal officials could begin to stop paying for certain vaccines to be administered to children of low-income families.

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“That end of the game is no joke, and that’s only built for certain guys, and we felt that he could handle it.”

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The US president has the authority to deploy the National Guard for certain purposes which include "suppressing rebellion".

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It’s a really stigmatized genre, and a genre that is specifically for men and for certain kinds of lyrics.

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However, it's too early to say for certain.

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