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safe

[sayf] / seɪf /




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Organizations want to move as fast as competition demands, Alvarez told the WSJ Leadership Institute ahead of this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, “but at the same time as safe as we can.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“We have the opportunity to build a new vision for our country, y’all. One where everyone can be healthy, prosperous and safe, and experience rest and joy.”

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 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

Jackson says his first sense was "relief in that the papers were back somewhere safe" before the realisation "it was now going to be public".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The Burr brothers recommended believing experts like themselves, as “it is not a very safe business to trust to what men call their senses.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

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

The three-room suite was crammed with desks, chairs, typewriters, file cabinets, and three large safes.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Claire says that removing the presumption puts children at the front of decision-making - which would keep them safer.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Kristen Vanetsky and her family moved to Bend, Oregon, after a shooting in their New Mexico neighborhood, choosing Silver Rail elementary for her grandson because they considered it safer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

But he’s still safer in the shuttle than on the surface with us.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

That early robot evaluated just 20 measurement points to determine the safest route ahead.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Gates similarly takes credit for making Huntington Beach “one of the safest cities in the state of California” and said it is he who is the “law and order candidate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The pressure on France has investors obsessing over a level known as “the spread,” or the extra yield on French bonds compared with the bloc’s safest investment: the German bund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

By Water.—Here is the safest way, in one respect, but with most danger in another.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker


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