Decide and Ensure

Decide

Decide verb - To make final, definite, or beyond dispute.

Usage example: the huge sum that they were offering decided the matter: we would sell the house

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Ensure and decide are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ensure" instead a verb "Decide".

Nearby Words: decisive, decision, deciding, decider

Ensure verb - To make sure, certain, or safe.

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Decide and ensure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decide" instead a verb "Ensure".

Nearby Word: ensuring

life	decide life	ensure life
order	decide order	ensure order
place	decide place	ensure place
chance	decide chance	ensure chance
Other words: future, death, outcome, time, world, game, fight, damage, nothing, war.

After this, you can decide what to do, though the Minutemen are kept essential to ensure that you can always complete the main quest independently even if you antagonize all the other factions.

Source: Railroading
Also invoked by Ichiko and Momiji once they realize Ikari's deification process of the whole Butsumetsu City cannot be reversed in with little time available, so they decide to make all the townspeople into deities instead to ensure the latter's survival.

Source: Manga / Binbō-gami ga!
Hiroshi can decide to ensure she escapes at any cost, meaning she survives even the worst ending... but at the cost of everyone else.

Source: Infant Immortality / Video Games

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