safe
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"It has changed to the point that people don't feel safe walking up the high street."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
"This time, we've lost the land and the building. We need a school again. But first, we need somewhere safe to build it."
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
“They were in places that we normally feel very safe at, and there’s no concerns for our safety, for our children’s well-being, but there suddenly was a concern for our privacy.”
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Whatever the scholarly truth, it’s safe to say that “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” to give this late romance its full title, is a patchwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Regan’s face went white, and the relief I’d felt upon her safe return evaporated instantly.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
While spy agencies have long relied on local agents for tasks that insiders can accomplish best—like unlocking doors, cracking safes and planting bugs—the new agents would do more than assist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
We crouch down on the floor in front of a row of safes.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Givens said he also discovered some jewelry missing from two safes that had been opened during the search.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
Back in March, investigators searching Combs’ Holmby Hills home emptied safes, dismantled electronics and left papers strewn in some rooms, sources told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2024
Jonah wondered if that also applied to boys opening locked safes and looking at secret papers.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
For example, premiums on riskier corporate bonds — the extra yield investors demand versus safer government debt — were around the lowest on record this week.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
No matter how many commitments data-center operators make to safer, quieter, greener innovations, recent history has convinced many communities not to trust any of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Scientists agree that warming above 1.5C relative to pre-industrial times poses grave risks and nearly 200 nations committed a decade ago to try and keep global temperature rises to this safer threshold.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
They also argue automation could make flying safer, pointing to past declines in accidents as more automated systems have been introduced.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
We’d be there for each other, and with his quick wits to help us through and make sure we made it back home, I’d feel a lot safer than going on my own.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Your long-term investing goal is to build wealth over the coming decades in the safest, most reliable way possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
When bond prices fall, yields rise — giving investors more incentive to own U.S. government debt, typically considered one of the safest investments in the world from a default perspective.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Identifying the safest place to extract it was not straightforward, particularly as anatomy tends to differ between individuals.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Her revealing, sometimes seething account makes clear that, rather than being solo affairs, the safest rescues are accomplished by teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
He liked to sit in the middle seat because someone had once told him that it was the safest seat in the whole car.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
