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

The remainder is allocated to cooling and maintaining chains upon chains of redundant fail-safes to prevent costly downtime.

From Scientific American

And it has created a fail-safe for when it does lose: courts stacked with partisan judges who will block basically any Democratic policy initiative.

From Washington Post

But, if not, Rita’s fail-safe is always a good place to divert to.

From New York Times

“It’s almost like a fail-safe recipe for success,” said Mr. Hoops, 37.

From New York Times