Correctly and For sure

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Correctly adverb - In a manner suitable for the occasion or purpose.

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For sure and correctly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "For sure" instead an adverb "Correctly".

For sure adverb - Definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely').

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Correctly and for sure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Correctly" instead an adverb phrase "For sure".

In "Frontier Desperados", they inform Belle that her husband Wade is dead although they don't know for sure, because they correctly suspect that she's involved in his kidnapping.

Source: Series / The Pinkertons
Of course, Tropes Are Tools; sometimes cheating angles is preferable — be it to keep that distinctive feature visible, or to avoid a distracting tangent (having to tell the audience what's happening because they can't see for sure for example) that would be caused by drawing it "correctly".

Source: Cheated Angle
This way, the pirate (her boyfriend in disguise) can demand her to deliver the ransom without arousing Five-0's suspicion, because it can be assumed he saw her in the paper and therefore deduced correctly that she's no cop for sure.

Source: Series / Hawaii Five-0

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