Ensure and Settle

Ensure

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

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

Nearby Word: ensuring

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

Usage example: this information should settle the question of who is right

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Ensure and settle are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ensure" instead a verb "Settle".

Nearby Words: settled, settlement, settling, settler, settlor

people	ensure people	settle people
peace	ensure peace	settle peace
world	ensure world	settle world
game	ensure game	settle game
Other words: fight, nothing, war.

Ironically, this seems to have helped ensure the actual timeline came to pass, since it was a vision of Agrabah that convinced the caravan leader to settle down and build the city.

Source: Make Wrong What Once Went Right
Bittersweet Ending: Ella sacrifices herself to ensure the alien scouts don't return home, and Lonergan decides not to settle down, but the aliens are dead, and the town of Absolution sees a boom on the horizon, as all the gold the aliens mined and refined has rained down over the praeries nearby.

Source: Film / Cowboys and Aliens

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