fail-safe
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The boats had rejected their inputs and automatically idled as a fail-safe, making them “dead” in the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Even if you plan to be fully engaged with managing money into retirement, a financial adviser could be a fail-safe if you can no longer make sound decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
Congress created the Insurrection Act as a fail-safe in response to armed mobs attacking their neighbors and organized militias seeking to overthrow elected officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Margery had extremely strong principles about fail-safe commands.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2024
Upon arrival in the town or reservation, Irwin would trot the horses off the railcars and straight to the nearest back road or bullring, where he would implement a nearly fail-safe betting system.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
And because airplanes are packed with fail-safes, there are times when a flight with a malfunctioning system can safely proceed simply by relying on one or more backups instead.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
However, discussions of fall-backs and fail-safes have not been welcome in the Wales camp while the possibility of automatic qualification remains.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023
The company typically uses two or even three separate components as fail-safes for crucial tasks to reduce the possibility of a disastrous failure.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2019
Fortunately, though, the new generation of submarines are built with so many levels of redundancy and fail-safes, the chances of anything bad happening are remote.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 12, 2018
An inmate had escaped from the Rikers Island Visit Room that same summer, despite the many fail-safes.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
