emergency brake

Example Sentences

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Identifying these risks is a net gain to the world, not a disaster, not a reason to pull the emergency brake on AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

They witnessed history when their leader fulfilled a dream to play with his son, they reshaped their culture with one trade and pulled the emergency brake to get out of another.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025

"The emergency brake downstream worked but clearly not the one on the cabin that was about to reach the top of the hill," he told Italian media on Thursday.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025

In the Fort Totten crash, the system didn’t detect the parked train, and an operator onboard the moving train was unable to hit an emergency brake in time.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2023

Quickly, Leeman pulled the emergency brake, halting the train.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler