Ensure and Support

Ensure

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

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

Nearby Word: ensuring

Support verb - To promote the interests or cause of.

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Ensure and support are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ensure" instead a verb "Support".

life	ensure life	support life
people	ensure people	support people
marriage	ensure marriage	support marriage
family	ensure family	support family
Other words: rule, game, existence, war.

MGS2 focused on memes instead of genes, so the S3 Plan was a method of trying to ensure that people who support the Patriots could be generated at will and, theoretically, at a mass level.

Source: Video Game / Metal Gear
The purpose is to ensure no-one will support Kevin's place on the Rabbit Council (since he has one floppy ear).

Source: Silly Reason for War
This was done because Francisco knew that the Mexican government was going to seize the mine, and wanted to ensure that it couldn't provide support to them once it did.

Source: Useful Notes / The Thirty-Six Stratagems

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