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unsafe

[uhn-sayf] / ʌnˈseɪf /


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But the real question is do we force them to stop releasing unsafe models.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"These audits must identify broken streetlights, overgrown public spaces, abandoned buildings, unsafe transport routes and facilities, poorly secured parks, and other conditions that place women at risk."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Last year, former FDA commissioner David Kessler asked the agency to declare certain refined carbohydrates unsafe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The senior FAA official said the outcome of the agency’s probe could affect the plane’s certification if regulators determine the glitch amounts to an unsafe condition that needs to be addressed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“You’re not going to go inside? It looks unsafe, it might—oh, Harry, look!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

I knew I was on unsafe ground, but it proves far unsafer than I had thought.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

In a word, tourism, especially in Charleston, erstwhile “Best City” in America, and north along the coast to Myrtle Beach — now among the unsafest places in the United States and, therefore, the world.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2020

It is generally agreed that the U. S. is one of the unsafest places in the civilized world to have a baby.

From Time Magazine Archive

Intense feeling is apt to build upon a half-truth—the unsafest of all foundations.

From Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd

She had been gone about an hour when a small telegraph boy appeared, and, after boarding the barge in the unsafest manner possible, handed him a telegram.

From Many Cargoes by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Of all vehicles, on land or sea, to which man intrusts himself, the kayak is safest and unsafest.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various




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