Ensure
Nail
Nail verb - To make final, definite, or beyond dispute.
Usage example: this latest infidelity nails it—I'm filing for divorce
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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For Want of a Nail: To ensure that they aren't implicated in the killing, Peggy and Ed fake an accident.
Source: Series / Fargo - Synopsis: In a For Want of a Nail story, Lelouch sticks around long enough at the finale of season one to make ensure the Black Knights victory before going after Nunnally.
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In Spite of a Nail: Despite changing the political landscape just enough to ensure the rise of Fascism and the basic tenets of the English language, nothing else of major importance seems to have changed in the modern day.
Source: Literature / A Sound of Thunder
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