fail-safe

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Those recorded cues act as a fail-safe against technical malfunctions during the broadcast, though the orchestra aims to play everything live.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

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

Level 4 automated vehicles, which this research was based on, are capable of automatically starting fail-safe and fail-operational protocols.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 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