noun--Purposely insisting to someone that something is true when you know it isn't. i.e. lies.
"The musings of a radical outcast are victims of assurance fraud--Time and Again insist, and The Words truly believe, that they fall not on deaf ears."--C. Stern, 1991
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Collective agreement. More than one thing acting together to ensure something happening
The spanking of the Nazi's was mutually assured by the Allies.
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The principle underlying nuclear deterrence.

The recognition that the use of nuclear weapons between any two nuclear powers (or nuclear-allied powers) will result in mutual destruction. The reason nuclear weapons are so useful (and can never be used).
Mutually Assured Destruction guarantees that nobody but those crazy Arabs will ever use nukes.
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The practice of distracting others in a manner assuring that neither party gets any work done.
We were both working on our papers but then she started chatting with me on Facebook and it was mutually assured distraction after that.
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a.k.a. MAD, refers to the military stalemate between Russia and USA between late 1940 and the present. The basic premise is that each side has so many nuclear weapons in its arsenal, that strike/counter strike would destroy both combatants.
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for a group of people to each assure each other of wanting to obtain something/someone
the gang bangers were mutually assured of the buisiness proposition.
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When a couple mutually decide at the same time to end a relationship with no chance of ever being in relationship with one another ever again. Basically Nuke with Salted Earth only both mutually agree and launch nukes with salted earth at the same time. Or in response to knowing a break up notice is approaching.
Kyle and Kimberly are not together; it was mutually assured destruction.
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