unsafe
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For decades, the Department of Homeland Security has granted TPS designations for foreign-born people who can’t return to their home countries because of unsafe conditions such as armed conflict or natural disasters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
There is no red banner telling me this particular bag is unsafe.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Vans are equipped with technology that notifies subcontractors of unsafe driving behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
During one heatwave, he cancelled physiotherapy and missed giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry because travelling became unsafe.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
One day our adult caretakers, including Abraham, decided that it would be unsafe to linger in Pochala.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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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
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Few and simple as these were, they were sufficient to furnish a safe conduct of life even through the unsafest days of the most unsettled period of our nation's history.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
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