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
“Within moments, the robot came to a full stop in response to sensing a pedestrian in close proximity, which is considered its fail-safe state.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
The NFL’s fail-safe against the worst excesses of institutional money is ego.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
Encoding provided a measure of security but was not fail-safe.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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
The local election board reported a simpler story: A new worker had incorrectly trashed the ballots, and its fail-safes had quickly identified the problem.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2020
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
