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unsafe

[uhn-sayf] / ʌnˈseɪf /


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Ask for Angela allows people who feel unsafe in bars or clubs to discreetly seek help.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

They argued that the minister should take responsibility for a high-speed rail system that many Spaniards now regard as unsafe and whose credibility even Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez admitted was "broken".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

“We will only consider euthanasia for animals who are irremediably suffering due to illness or injury, have poor quality of life, or who are unsafe to place in the community,” the agency wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Europe has also expressed concern about "unsafe" non-EU products such as toys that violate the bloc's rules arriving via Chinese e-commerce platforms.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The fair taught men and women steeped only in the necessary to see that cities did not have to be dark, soiled, and unsafe bastions of the strictly pragmatic.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

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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