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White House officials are assuring the public that the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the largest since the 2008 global financial crisis, won’t touch off another string of bank collapses.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2023

The White House and House leadership are assuring the public that they’re acquiring the votes they need, and that they’ll be at 216 by Thursday’s scheduled roll call.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2017

“If you construct a classroom in which children must keep their seats,” he said in 1987, “you are assuring that there will be a hyperactivity syndrome.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2016

Friends are assuring you that this will pass and people will move on to the next thing.

From Time • Nov. 6, 2014

Furthermore, these changes often stand out thus sharply from my original text, that very numerous readers are assuring me that they could say very precisely where the forgery begins and where it ends.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther