safe
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Keep these funds in a safe, liquid account, such as an interest-bearing savings account or a money-market fund, so they are readily available when needed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
—The dollar fell as oil prices declined and demand for safe havens waned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Here, the promise that local law enforcement keeps people safe is often hard for residents to take at face value.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
With that scenario now within reach, it is safe to assume the forward will almost certainly request a significant pay increase if he moves this summer.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Wolf was waiting for them: sitting beneath a birch tree a safe distance from the Widewater, shaking with fear.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Fortune Brands is best known for its home- and building-products brands including Moen, House of Rohl kitchen and bath fixtures, SentrySafe waterproof safes and others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
They had been stored in acid-free boxes and kept in iron safes.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
For weeks, they’ve been scouring their homes and cracking open their safes to retrieve vintage necklaces, family heirlooms and other expensive pieces containing the precious metal that can be melted for cash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
The sources said that it appeared investigators searching Combs’ L.A. home emptied safes, dismantled electronics and left papers strewn in some rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Ellsberg entered his tiny workspace—“a cubbyhole,” he called it—barely big enough for a desk and chair, a bookcase, and two safes for classified files.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
The question is not whether state power or popular power is always safer.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
In a business that’s notorious for having razor-thin profit margins, a truck is a safer bet — and one you can also resell if things don’t work out, Ramirez said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Instead, the rapid response helped reveal biological processes that could guide the development of safer and more targeted therapies.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
They say allowing them to be produced in the U.S. is safer for patients.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Certainly not while you’re swinging that enormous—here now, watch that! Great Belin, I was safer in Achren’s dungeon!”
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
Researchers would also need to determine the safest and most effective timing for each switch.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
It is considered the safest option for treating pain and fever in pregnant women, as other medications, including aspirin or ibuprofen, present proven risks to the fetus -- as do untreated fevers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Apart from the dangerously low overnight temperatures, faraway Omsk seemed like the safest place on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The safest place for a baby to sleep is on a firm, flat mattress on their back in a clear cot with no toys inside, according to the baby sleep safety charity the Lullaby Trust.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Of course, the safest way to expense to one’s Wall Street firm a day of playing Full Metal Jacket was to invite some customer along.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
