playing safe
Example Sentences
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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
Lenders were playing safe with their rates, he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2022
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan made their comedy great by never playing safe.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
“I’m gunning for 58 this year, not playing safe for 59.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
In any case he was playing safe, for he only promised me half if the treasure was found.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
