sure-enough
adjective
real; genuine.
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sure enoughActually, as one might have thought, as in Sure enough, the plane was three hours late. [Mid-1500s]
sure-enough
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[shoor-i-nuhf, shur-]
/ ˈʃʊər ɪˈnʌf, ˈʃɜr- /
adjective
Older Use.
sure enough
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Etymology
Origin of sure-enough
First recorded in 1535–45
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They seem to be straining every nerve to convince you that they are done with flippant irrelevancies, that this time they are in deadly earnest, writing a sure-enough mystery story.
From Time Magazine Archive
Author De Hartog, a sure-enough seafaring man, began his nautical career at ten, got to be a brass polisher on an Amsterdam tugboat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Teacher Anthony is a sure-enough sculptor who has studied under Carl Milles, works not only in soap but in wood, bronze, stone.
From Time Magazine Archive
A slender amputation case in a lower, still staring through the window into the dark countryside, said: 'I knew a real sure-enough model' and went on in detail about her.
From Time Magazine Archive
From there a sure-enough wagon road snakes down over the edge of the bench and curves away north to Brown's Ferry.
From A Man in the Open by Pocock, Roger
And sure enough, during the 45 minutes or so of Q&A, Warsh made clear that rate hikes aren’t off the table at all.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
And sure enough, there’s this southern tip of Ventura that’s like 25 minutes from my house up the 101.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
“It was like the magazine cover curse — as soon as that happened, it was like, ‘Oh, boy,’ and, sure enough, we’ve been down since.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026
And sure enough, as UConn’s shots started falling and its defense stiffened against Boozer’s attacks, the deficit narrowed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
It took him twenty minutes to reach the top and sure enough K Unit was already there, crouching around three small tents that they must have pitched earlier in the afternoon.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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