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unsafe

[uhn-sayf] / ʌnˈseɪf /


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The settlement follows a December 2024 cease-and-desist order from US regulators that hit BofA for "unsafe or unsound practices," including failure to timely file suspicious activity reports.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Red indicates an address is unsafe to enter, while yellow restricts use.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

"No-one should ever be made to feel unsafe, scared, or at risk of abuse in their homes and communities."

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

"The club's firm position is that, on multiple grounds, the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe," City said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Everyone says it’s about time, it was getting so unsafe.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

From Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd

The unsafest and the most unsatisfactory evidence in this world is evidence of conversation.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll




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