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safe

[sayf] / seɪf /




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It’s in some ways safer, in some ways less safe.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

“All you can do is do the best we can. We stay safe, stay healthy, this too shall pass.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Ukrainian officials spent months publicly demanding that Russia allow civilians some safe route out of Oleshky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

More research will be necessary to establish whether the approaches are safe and effective in people.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

As a matter of fact, it came first to Jop, the seventeen-year-old apprentice who had sought a safe home at the Beje.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

They had been stored in acid-free boxes and kept in iron safes.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

In March, investigators searching Combs’ Holmby Hills mansion emptied safes, dismantled electronics and left papers strewn in some rooms, sources told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

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

Jonah wondered if that also applied to boys opening locked safes and looking at secret papers.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

It’s in some ways safer, in some ways less safe.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Concerns over France’s budget deficit have pushed yields higher, while U.S. and German bonds have had the opposite reaction because they are considered safer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

That would blow past the historic goal agreed in Paris: keeping warming well below 2C while striving for a safer 1.5C.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Their findings, published in Nature Communications, could guide the development of safer statins that maintain their cholesterol-lowering benefits while minimizing muscle damage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

But he was also beginning to feel a little safer.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

The researchers hope their findings will encourage greater awareness of how JAK inhibitors influence the immune system and support further investigations into their safest and most effective uses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Stupnikov understood a central paradox of his situation: The safest place for turncoats like him was in Ukraine—close to the troops and country they left behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Bafta Scotland said it had worked with safeguarding and inclusion experts to allow Davidson to take part in its forthcoming ceremony in Glasgow "in the safest way possible for all".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Gates similarly takes credit for making Huntington Beach “one of the safest cities in the state of California” and said it is he who is the “law and order candidate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“You’re safest in a single, unmarked vehicle,” Vann told Ellsberg, “driving fast at irregular times during the day.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin


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