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surely

You use surely to suggest that you strongly hope or believe that what you say is correct. Surely, she won't be late this time.

surely

(= certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting) definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely') the results are surely encouraging she certainly is a hard worker it's going to be a good day for sure they are coming, for certain they thought he had been killed sure enough he'll win sure as shooting they sure smell good sure he'll come

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Simple sentences

The day will surely come when your dreams will come true.
Well, I'll surely ask again.
If Spenser doesn't keep adding and translating sentences, the other contributors will surely surpass him.
If we are to judge the future of ocean study by its past, we can surely look forward to many exciting discoveries.
That is a criminal offense, and you will surely be punished!
Your effort will surely bear fruit.
That is surely an idea.
Among the five of us, he's surely the one who can speak the most languages.
The risk of confusion is too high, I surely cannot be the only one who does not get this.
He'll surely get caught and be put in prison.
Surely no one will look for this sentence.
No-one is more capable of translating your sentences than yourself, surely.
You are young and healthy and you will surely live a long life.
It'll surely rain today.
The day will surely come when your dream will come true.
While American methods are often successful, the Japanese educational system that produces the most literate people in the world surely has some lessons to teach the U.S.
He will surely succeed in his new job.
Esperanto is surely an enormous waste of time!
One may add matres lectionis when the word could be ambiguous, but surely it is not obligatory.

Movie subtitles

The future of humanity surely lay in the East.
As we'II see, there was more than one killer app, but the one that really started the ball rolling was surely competition - both the main driver of capitalism and of the fragmented European state system.
Surely, this has to be more than a coincidence, right?
Surely he owed Jared the courtesy of acknowledging him as his son?
Well, surely Miriana can verify?
Surely, as his doctor you'd know exactly what went on?
Therefore, surely you would know that he wasn't receiving treatment.
Surely some of the other contenders felt the same way.
Surely sir, there's not a judge in the city who would believe that?
Surely you are not crying because you cannot speak?
Madame Labille will surely send me to the Devil!
I surely hope the King will declare himself to me today.
Ah, we'll surely see each other again, Kat.
I'm a trapper. Surely there's fur aplenty out in that land beyond Oregon?
But in the meantime, he must surely have thought about other questions in Astronomy.
Surely that was enough.
Well, surely there's fur aplenty out in that land beyond Oregon.
I'll surely see her before I leave.
And if their wings are singed, surely I can't be blamed.
But surely, Professor.
Surely.
Surely, you regret having betrayed your country.
Just as surely as though there were a bullet in my heart.
Surely you are not thinking of flying in this weather?
Surely, a simple job like that needn't have been unpleasant.
You've stood that boy against a wall, just as surely as you're standing there.
Surely, Mr. Townsend, you can afford to be more liberal.
Surely there is a path that allows passage.
Surely, sir.
But surely you don't think that anyone who has hunted leopards. would follow you into that ambush?
Surely you want to come with your sister and me?
Surely you don't believe it, do you?
But surely you will stay for dinner after the ceremony?
Well, surely you don't think she's alive, in the hands of natives?
Once in a century won't matter, surely.
Oh, surely.
You'll excuse us, won't you? - Surely.

News and current affairs

If the bonds were acceptable as collateral before the restructuring, surely they were safer after the restructuring, and thus equally acceptable.
How can growth be revived when austerity will almost surely mean a further decrease in aggregate demand, sending output and employment even lower?
And the crisis itself almost surely will spread.
But, while this scenario has a certain ring of truth, surely any breakup would be highly traumatic, with the euro diving before its rump form recovered.
Of course, one might ask why the people involved should matter at all; surely the facts of the case should speak for themselves.
In many countries, this is leading to a new round of austerity - policies that will almost surely lead to weaker national and global economies and a marked slowdown in the pace of recovery.
But he is surely right to observe that no other power is threatening to usurp America's role as the world's military policeman.
But, now that the specter of global communist domination has joined other fears - real and imagined - in the dustbin of history, it is surely time for countries to start handling their own affairs.
Did he not think about what would happen to poor Americans with variable-rate mortgages if interest rates rose, as they almost surely would?
First, your own eyes and your reason would surely tell you before long that the communist idyll - the withering away of the state and the triumph over need - would never come.
Surely, imitation will someday impinge on superior US growth performance as well.
If there are any human rights at all, the right not to be locked up indefinitely without trial is surely one of them.
Similarly, membership of bodies that conduct peer review of scientific proposals - a process that is fundamental to scientific progress - surely ought to be free of all barriers to entry that are unrelated to professional qualifications.
As markets normalize, surely investors will look around and realize that the US has vastly increased its debt in fighting the downturn, possibly by several trillion dollars.
But, if that is a real fear for the ECB - if it is not merely acting on behalf of private lenders - surely it should have demanded that the banks have more capital.
Surely we can do better.
Even assuming stability in real estate prices, the global crisis surely will cause a fall in remittances by Africans working good jobs in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East.
Even if they fail to gain power, the emergence of such an alternative would surely influence the Arab world's agenda for years to come.
Times have surely changed - partly because of people and actions like these.
A comprehensive euro fix will surely arrive for some of the countries at some time, but not for all of the countries anytime soon.
Surely, the national interests of the US and the West are not the only ones that matter.
This is surely one of the biggest reasons for the lax regulation of deep-sea oil drilling.

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