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[sayf] / seɪf /




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It has also argued that Haiti is safe enough to return to.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

He said India continues to support "free, safe and unimpeded flow of trade, energy and fertiliser".

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

In Norway, even smaller-scale operations are deploying high technology to keep their salmon safe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Additional research will be needed to determine whether the approach is safe and effective enough to evaluate in people.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

As December approaches, however, they discover that they aren’t safe at all.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

But Major League Baseball was bound to have other suitors open their safes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025

We crouch down on the floor in front of a row of safes.

From BBC ● May 8, 2025

The sources said that it appeared investigators searching Combs’ L.A. home emptied safes, dismantled electronics and left papers strewn in some rooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

She's sure to have found out something, he thought, but suppose she tells me Capricorn has locked the book in one of his safes?

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Investors fleeing technology stocks in October have found a safer place to hide: consumer stocks of toothpaste and laundry-detergent makers and sellers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

For example, though people are still killed in avalanches, alert systems have played an essential role in making winter backcountry travel safer for more people.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

The NHS Alliance, which represents health managers, warn difficult decisions lie ahead and maternity services need to be consolidated to support safer care.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Ironically, larger, heavier vehicles are often safer for the occupants of cars, Schneider said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Tomás had brought two chain saws, but they immediately decided it would be safer for one of them to use the saw while the other pulled branches and pieces of trunk out of the way.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Nouraei tells her patients and clients, however, that the safest way to start taking creatine would be incrementally, beginning with three grams daily for a week, then four, then to five.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez, who took office in May, campaigned on a promise to crack down on the wave of crime sweeping what was once Central America's safest country.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“The safest way in our opinion to play nuclear is Constellation,” he told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Bafta Scotland said it had worked with safeguarding and inclusion experts to allow Davidson to take part in its forthcoming ceremony in Glasgow "in the safest way possible for all".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

And it'd be safest to wang the wallet into the Severn.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell


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