safety valve
Example Sentences
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And bonds aren’t serving as much of a safety valve, falling in price amid jitters about a rise in inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
It is an essential safety valve that remains "effective only if the conflict doesn't last too long", cautioned Perrin.
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
Elon Musk thinks humankind’s only safety valve is to move multitudes to Mars.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025
The whole point of doing a convention is to have a safety valve for something like this.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024
When pressure in the reactor gets too high, a safety valve opens and allows steam to escape into the torus, where it condenses back into water.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
