fail-safe
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Wartsila said client confidentiality prevented it answering questions on why fail-safe monitoring equipment was not fitted on Glen Sannox, or who had access to its service notices.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Fund managers built in a fail-safe, allowing them to limit quarterly withdrawals to 5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
One significant solution implemented as a fail-safe for Level 4 automated vehicles is the concept of remote driving.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024
She followed my recommendation to take the DMV’s fail-safe eLearning course on her home computer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
She referred to it as nature’s fail-safe, as if that could draw the poison from the sting.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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 second thing that people need to be thinking about here is, what other fail-safes do you have built in place?
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2021
“There are all sorts of fail-safes built into the system to avoid falsely accusing somebody of something,” Scollay said as the sport began the wait for the second result and Medina Spirit headed for Pimlico.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2021
“One of my mom’s fail-safes, just in case it has to be destroyed in a hurry.”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
