fail-safe
Example Sentences
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“Ella changed ink and words into magic. She turned that into something. Remember what Ollie said? There’s a fail-safe. We already have the door. It’s in the words from the missing pages.”
From Literature
The boats had rejected their inputs and automatically idled as a fail-safe, making them “dead” in the water.
“Only the person who activated the STM can use it again. My mom has fail-safes against everything.”
From Literature
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.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
