unsafe
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Being able to see the internal parts through its socket holes can be a sign it is unsafe - they should have safety shutters instead.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
What’s more, the government said, the positive sample was discovered in lettuce that wasn’t covered by Taylor’s recall, suggesting there could be additional product that was unsafe to eat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Scientists led by UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography are warning that oxygen is disappearing rapidly from oceans and freshwater systems, potentially pushing the planet into an "unsafe space."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Authorities encouraged New Yorkers to spend as little time outside as possible, with Mayor Zohran Mamdani warning of the "serious threat" of heavy heat and unsafe air.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
And I began to hear his hoarse roaring, that aaonh cry as rich as gold or honey and as spine-chilling as the depths of an unsafe mine or a thousand angry bees.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
I knew I was on unsafe ground, but it proves far unsafer than I had thought.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
In a word, tourism, especially in Charleston, erstwhile “Best City” in America, and north along the coast to Myrtle Beach — now among the unsafest places in the United States and, therefore, the world.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2020
It is generally agreed that the U. S. is one of the unsafest places in the civilized world to have a baby.
From Time Magazine Archive
He hired out quite the dirtiest and unsafest bicycles in the whole south of England, and conducted the subsequent discussions with astonishing verve.
From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The unsafest and the most unsatisfactory evidence in this world is evidence of conversation.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green
She had been gone about an hour when a small telegraph boy appeared, and, after boarding the barge in the unsafest manner possible, handed him a telegram.
From Many Cargoes by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
