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  "id": "sure.confidence",
  "term": "sure",
  "sense": "confidence",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "sure",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to be certain and just",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "certain.confidence",
      "just.exact"
    ],
    "interaction": "the confidence of being certain combined with exactness creates assured certainty",
    "novel_properties": [
      "assuredness",
      "lack of doubt"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope's gyroscopes failed repeatedly, but servicing missions restored its precise pointing for decades.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to 5.25% aiming to exactly balance inflation and employment.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe used error-correcting codes to transmit data accurately across 15 billion miles of space.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "certain.confidence",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "sure",
    "surer",
    "surest"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sure.confidence"
}