playing safe
Example Sentences
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"The modern-day players coming through have got to copy this. You can't win playing safe."
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
With a playwright as hawk-eyed as Gasda at the helm, “Zoomers” has the potential to be a substantial work about the new-to-adulthood generation, but it won’t get there playing safe, or playing Smash.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
“I’m gunning for 58 this year, not playing safe for 59.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
But there’s a gray area between playing safe and playing scared.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2016
Vince Marr was like that—always playing safe for himself, always thinking a jump ahead of his crowd and a jump and a half ahead of the police.
From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
