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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James Caesar Petrillo declared that it was a sure-enough, wage-earning musical instrument, and that professional harmonica players would have to join his musicians' union.
From Time Magazine Archive
This taut tale of what happened one night in big-time Charley King's midwestern gambling house will give ordinary bridge and poker fans a rough notion of the fever that throbs in a sure-enough gambler's veins.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day a sure-enough snake turned up in the plausible person of Henri Gauthier-Villars, a 34-year-old literary hack who married her and then shut her up in his Paris garret.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
“Plainville has a sure-enough singer at last,” declared Alice Goode to her mother the morning after the Grant party.
From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.
“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, in large part they have, according to an analysis that Odhrain McCarthy External link conducted for Barron’s.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
He painstakingly watched the game tape and, sure enough, he had scored 31 points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
And sure enough, he was picked out among the Principality Stadium crowd when Wales suffered a 10-try drubbing by England during last year's Six Nations.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
I looked at my eight-year-old sister: sure enough, her high-buttoned shoes were neatly fastened.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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