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1. (idiomatic, evaluative) Just as one would expect.

   Rain had been predicted for that day and, sure enough, it was beginning to rain.

   • 1981 August, Leon Haywood, “She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)” (track 5), in Carl Carlton, performed by Carl Carlton:

     Her body measurements are perfect in every dimension / She's got a figure / That's sure enough getting attention

   • 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Chaplin wouldn't be dissuaded. He knew that The Great Dictator was worth making, and, sure enough, it was a box office smash