fail-safe
Example Sentences
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Those recorded cues act as a fail-safe against technical malfunctions during the broadcast, though the orchestra aims to play everything live.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
The boats had rejected their inputs and automatically idled as a fail-safe, making them “dead” in the water.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 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
One significant solution implemented as a fail-safe for Level 4 automated vehicles is the concept of remote driving.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
She referred to it as nature’s fail-safe, as if that could draw the poison from the sting.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
