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

As a key oil producer, Saudi Arabia is relied upon to surge output and stabilize markets during crises, but any physical degradation of its export capacity neuters this critical fail-safe.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Ella changed ink and words into magic. She turned that into something. Remember what Ollie said? There’s a fail-safe. We already have the door. It’s in the words from the missing pages.”

From Literature

The boats had rejected their inputs and automatically idled as a fail-safe, making them “dead” in the water.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Only the person who activated the STM can use it again. My mom has fail-safes against everything.”

From Literature