ensuring

present participle of ensure
as in assuring
to make sure, certain, or safe regulations that ensure the wholesomeness of our food

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Recent Examples of ensuring Controlling a fire means ensuring that the fire can't spread or cross the containment line. Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2025 The liquid, which is electrically non-conductive, fills all the spaces between the cells, ensuring direct and uniform contact for heat transfer. Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025 Behind the polished hair was professional heat styling powered by ghd hair tools, ensuring strands were molded without compromising health. Essence, 14 Sep. 2025 Blakeney, who left Universal last spring, specializes in equipping theme parks with all of the unsexy infrastructure required to function—toilets, cellphone towers—as well as ensuring that none of it impinges on the illusion. Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2025 These alternative sources of meaning act as stabilizers, ensuring their mental health isn’t tied solely to external metrics beyond their control. Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025 Why These Timeframes Matter Following donation guidelines is important for caring for your health and ensuring high-quality donations. Carrie Madormo, Health, 14 Sep. 2025 Some of these technologies are essential for ensuring the proper functioning of the service or website and cannot be disabled, while others are optional but serve to enhance the user experience in various ways. Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2025 But a key challenge for businesses is ensuring that the benefits of these tools are broadly shared across the workforce. Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ensuring
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  • Alaskan authorities are assuring regulations are followed.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In particular, O’Neill proposed doing away with FDA’s 60-year-old mandate of assuring new drugs are both safe and effective in treating disease.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
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  • The leadership of the paper, and others within Spotlight interviewed during the investigation, felt that McCarthy had behaved appropriately, and was in fact focused on guaranteeing the accuracy of sensitive, high-stakes projects.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • When Northern Democrats would not agree to militant pro-slavery demands such as passage of a federal slave code guaranteeing slavery’s westward expansion, Southern Democrats walked out.
    Time, Time, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Ensuring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ensuring. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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