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0 pointsworik4y ago0 comments

> The SPX will almost guarantee those

Interest new use of the word "almost"

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Hardly new.

> But your father doesn't want to invest, say, ten thousand dollars in it, though I can almost guarantee that he'll get five times that sum back.

Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon 1913

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0 pointsworik4y ago0 comments

> The SPX will almost guarantee those

Interest new use of the word "almost"

Hardly new.

> But your father doesn't want to invest, say, ten thousand dollars in it, though I can almost guarantee that he'll get five times that sum back.

Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon 1913

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse