surely; certainly; definitely · fixed; settled · a certain...; a given...

I took it for granted that he would pass the exam.

It's four against you. You'll be beaten up.

Kate must be sick, for she looks pale.

My father must have been handsome in his youth.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches, in numbers this nation has never seen. By people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.