fail-safe

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

The problem was that his fail-safe arrangement had a couple of holes.

From Los Angeles Times

The emotional fail-safe has kept all the accumulated pain from debilitating you.

From Washington Post

Although networks say they want to offer Latino consumers stories that capture and reflect their experiences, producers largely have been unable to figure out a fail-safe way — unless the programming is in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times

But the trade-off of that is that the larynx had to get lower down deep into the throat, and you lost this fail-safe that kept us from being susceptible to choking.

From Salon