unsafe
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That would give the government authority to block an unsafe model release and create a framework for labs to test for catastrophic cyber, biological and nuclear capability, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Further, the former employee says that she was “required to work excessive and unsafe hours” and told not to report overtime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Of 223,808 food samples tested across India in 2025 and 2026, nearly one in five, external were found to be "non-conforming" - which means the samples were either unsafe, substandard or mislabelled.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
They are the families who can’t buy their way out of a failing school or an unsafe street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
I felt so unsafe knowing we wouldn't have him to protect us at night.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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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
Intense feeling is apt to build upon a half-truth—the unsafest of all foundations.
From Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd