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
He said the boats went “dead in the water” as an automatic fail-safe, which prevented them from causing damage or injury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The NFL’s fail-safe against the worst excesses of institutional money is ego.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 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
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 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
Fortunately, though, the new generation of submarines are built with so many levels of redundancy and fail-safes, the chances of anything bad happening are remote.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 12, 2018
That was the beauty of all these fail-safes and layers of security.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
