fail-safe

Example Sentences

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Though Mr Gove stressed that the Section 35 provision must remain a "fail safe power" that is "used sparingly".

From BBC • May 17, 2025

And they should raise a concerted national effort to strengthen fail safe methods needed to stop the epidemic of wrongful convictions.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2021

"It is important because there is no fail safe," Vrabel said.

From Fox News • Aug. 26, 2021

It’s up to the I-T guys at both the club and league to make sure that everything works - and that they have a fail safe.

From Washington Times • Apr. 14, 2020

Since everything aboard a starship is designed to fail safe, they were, of course, in normal space.

From Subspace Survivors by Dongen, H. R. van