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  2. Segal's law - Wikipedia

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    A man with two watches is never sure. [ 1 ] At surface level, the adage emphasizes the consistency that arises when information comes from a single source and points out the potential pitfalls of having too much conflicting information.

  3. Template:Not sure - Wikipedia

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  4. Stein's unbiased risk estimate - Wikipedia

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    A standard application of SURE is to choose a parametric form for an estimator, and then optimize the values of the parameters to minimize the risk estimate. This technique has been applied in several settings. For example, a variant of the James–Stein estimator can be derived by finding the optimal shrinkage estimator. [2]

  5. Filler (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Every conversation involves turn-taking, which means that whenever someone wants to speak and hears a pause, they do so. Pauses are commonly used to indicate that someone's turn has ended, which can create confusion when someone has not finished a thought but has paused to form a thought; in order to prevent this confusion, they will use a filler word such as um, er, or uh.

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    The guideline does not apply to quotations, which should be faithfully reproduced from the original sources (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Quotations). If you do not feel you can improve the problematic wording of an article yourself, a template message can be added to draw the attention of other editors to an article needing a cleanup.

  7. Unsure - Wikipedia

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    Search for Unsure in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Unsure article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  8. Sic - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, the Latin adverb sic is used as an adverb, and derivatively as a noun and as a verb. [3] The adverb sic, meaning 'intentionally so written', first appeared in English c. 1856. [4] It is derived from the Latin adverb sīc, which means 'so', 'thus', 'in this manner'. [5]

  9. Sure - Wikipedia

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    Sure may refer to: Seemingly unrelated regressions; Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE), an economics academic journal; Sure, as probability, see certainty; Sure (brand), a brand of antiperspirant deodorant; Sure (company), a telecommunications company operating in British Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories