fail-safe
Example Sentences
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Even if you plan to be fully engaged with managing money into retirement, a financial adviser could be a fail-safe if you can no longer make sound decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
Congress created the Insurrection Act as a fail-safe in response to armed mobs attacking their neighbors and organized militias seeking to overthrow elected officials.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
There’s no 100% safe way to lift 500 pounds, just like there is no fail-safe way of throwing 100 mph.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025
The penalty for entering a fail-safe command “with insufficient reason” was prison, fines, but Margery thought the legal system didn’t go far enough.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024
Upon arrival in the town or reservation, Irwin would trot the horses off the railcars and straight to the nearest back road or bullring, where he would implement a nearly fail-safe betting system.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
