safety valve

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The port of Yanbu has emerged as a vital safety valve for Saudi crude, allowing Riyadh to bypass the paralyzed Strait of Hormuz by piping oil via its East-West pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Dot plots and macro projections serve as a pressure safety valve where disagreement can be hashed out, without harming the consistency of the policy message.

From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025

Elon Musk thinks humankind’s only safety valve is to move multitudes to Mars.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

The garment sector, which employs 750,000 people, has been a crucial social safety valve, giving steady incomes to Cambodia's poorest.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2025

When pressure in the reactor gets too high, a safety valve opens and allows steam to escape into the torus, where it condenses back into water.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland