safe
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Weeks of growing cyclospora case numbers, with no definitive cause, have spawned confusion among consumers about what’s safe to eat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Chait, safe to say, is not a fan of the DSA.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
An index fund, most likely, or a series of them — running from tech-heavy funds through various sectors, down to Treasury bond funds or CDs on the safe side.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Broad Peak, I ask for nothing but safe passage up and back down," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Lord, I prayed silently, if it is not safe to confide in Fred, stop this conversation now before it is too late.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
“Twice I found safes outside, just on the side of the curb.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
They had been stored in acid-free boxes and kept in iron safes.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
Argentina has a history of debasing its currency, which is why its people keep billions of dollars in coffee cans, home safes and mattresses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
But Major League Baseball was bound to have other suitors open their safes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025
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
Second, make work safer, with governments setting heat standards so vulnerable workers — in the garment industry, for example — aren't risking their lives.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
As a political reporter, I came away from Comic Con with one overriding impression: If world politics were more like the comic book world, reality would be a safer, saner and healthier place.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Banning open source at home won’t make the world safer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Lourdes Ramirez-Ortiz said district officials will be knocking on doors to ask how they can help make families feel safer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
“I’d be safer at home. Safer than on some stupid camping trip.”
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
That’s why scientists in Arizona are strapping volunteers into harnesses and lowering them onto wet floors: to find what kinds of surfaces are safest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Rather than asking whether terraforming violates the laws of physics, researchers believe the more important questions are whether humanity should pursue it and what the safest path would look like.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Southwest Nigeria -- home to economic capital Lagos -- has long been considered one of the safest regions in a country struggling with multiple security crises.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
“Ultimately, an individualized screening or monitoring process may be the safest approach, but we are still far from being able to precisely identify and intervene when an individual player may be at risk,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
That would be the easiest, safest way, but the cost for both would be over $20,000.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
