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safe

[sayf] / seɪf /




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Lazzeri said the Mexican government is making it safe for farmers and other entrepreneurs to alert authorities when they’re victims of extortion and is using satellites to track illegal logging that creates more avocado groves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

"The Secretary and the entire Department have always honored - and will always honor - the sacrifices our military men and women have made to keep America safe."

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

"We should go as fast as we can" on AI, but labs should not release products that are not safe, he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Regulators should offer a safe harbor to companies that meet the outcome targets with board sign-off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Torak judged it safe to let Wolf walk, and the cub plodded before him with drooping tail.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

His condition is both a superpower and a vulnerability, as we see when he discovers a dangerous new skill, cracking safes, with his unique ability to hear the tumblers of the lock moving internally.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

“Twice I found safes outside, just on the side of the curb.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

Argentina has a history of debasing its currency, which is why its people keep billions of dollars in coffee cans, home safes and mattresses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025

"We have found plenty of safes before," Mr Kane said.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2024

Had he accidentally agreed to help Chip unlock more safes, sort through more records?

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

She said she hopes the pope will deliver "a message of peace, reconciliation, and mercy -- a message full of love," and help Peru "reconcile as a nation" and become a safer place.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

The kei-car community insists that the vehicles are safer than plenty of vehicles already on the road, like motorcycles and even older vintage cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Advocates for the policy say it creates a safer alternative to the unregulated gray market currently supplying many peptides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Promise Knight, the council's cabinet member for cleaner streets, transport and public realm, said School Streets existed in the borough "to make the journey to and from school safer for children and families".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

“You must take me with you. I am safer with you, and you shall be safer, too.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

But for now, at least, this remote, disconnected and vulnerable island might be “the safest place in the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

That early robot evaluated just 20 measurement points to determine the safest route ahead.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Nouraei tells her patients and clients, however, that the safest way to start taking creatine would be incrementally, beginning with three grams daily for a week, then four, then to five.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez, who took office in May, campaigned on a promise to crack down on the wave of crime sweeping what was once Central America's safest country.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Legalistic debates over federal versus state sovereignty were just the most accessible handles to grab, the safest and most politically suitable ways to talk about alternative national visions.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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