fail-safe
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Another issue identified by the investigation was that no fail-safe system - involving valve position indicators and gas pressure sensors - had been installed to alert the crew that the valve was failing.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
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
Whenever those thoughts spring up, my sister is the fail-safe.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
“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
The company typically uses two or even three separate components as fail-safes for crucial tasks to reduce the possibility of a disastrous failure.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2019
“Only the person who activated the STM can use it again. My mom has fail-safes against everything.”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
