security blanket

Example Sentences

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Her books focused on all the real things children experienced, including pint-size dramas that adults sometimes seemed to miss: “Are my boots on the right feet? Can I safely put my security blanket down?”

From Seattle Times

He argued that the mask mandate was politically motivated and students’ masks are a “symbolic security blanket.”

From Washington Post

He said the security blanket of UBI would have made a real difference.

From BBC

“It was always like her security blanket, for someone who was very tightly wound, very Type A. It was like the last piece of a very thought-out outfit that holds it all together.”

From New York Times

The security blanket that the United States provided for two decades haunts the Afghan government’s actions, inactions and policies, fostering an atrophying of any proactive planning, in the view of some analysts.

From New York Times