fail-safe
Example Sentences
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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
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
She followed my recommendation to take the DMV’s fail-safe eLearning course on her home computer.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
There was a fail-safe command that would temporarily render Ellie incapable of making decisions.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024
When the first seismic waves reached the power plant at Fukushima Daiichi, fail-safe systems shut down the reactors.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
