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Princeton's WordNet

  1. honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(a), sure-enough(a)adverb

    (used informally especially for emphasis)

    "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"

  2. sure enoughadverb

    as supposed or expected

    "sure enough, he asked her for money again"

  3. surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shootingadverb

    definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')

    "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come"

Wiktionary

  1. sure enoughadverb

    Just as one would expect.

Wikipedia

  1. Sure Enough

    Sure Enough is a single by Canadian country music artist Chris Cummings. Released in 1996, it was the second single from his album Somewhere Inside. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in August 1996.

ChatGPT

  1. sure enough

    Sure enough is a phrase used to express the fact that something that was predicted or expected has indeed happened as anticipated. It implies a sense of certainty or confirmation.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sure enough in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sure enough in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of sure enough in a Sentence

  1. Keegan Bradley:

    I don't normally leave the flag in, i just decided to leave it in out of nowhere, and sure enough it hit the flag right in the middle and went in.

  2. Jason Foster:

    Me and my partner converged on the area and sure enough there he was on his little John Deere battery-poweredtractor.

  3. Thomas Ian Nicholas:

    The fifth ‘American Pie’ has been written and as far as I know has been sitting on a shelf in Universal collecting dust for the last five years, … I’m not really where that stands. There’s been a lot of rumors online. Some fans have started Twitter pages called ‘American Vacation,’ pretending that it’s happening. I haven’t heard anything. I was the first one to agree to do ‘American Reunion.’ I remember [writer] Adam Herz, we were talking at a sushi restaurant in 2009. He was like, ‘Hey, what do you think of this idea about doing a reunion? I was like, ‘Count me in… Good luck coordinating everyone’s schedules.’ Sure enough, it took about three years.

  4. Rowan Atkinson:

    As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech.

  5. Collin Morikawa:

    Last week at my press conference, I said the media loves creating drama. Sure enough, I woke up this morning to everyone thinking I’m next. Not to say I told you so but…I told you so.


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