safety valve

Example Sentences

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In addition, they note that now, parents will still have access to the debt, but thanks to the changes to repayment, they won’t have much of a safety valve if it becomes unmanageable.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 1, 2026

And bonds aren’t serving as much of a safety valve, falling in price amid jitters about a rise in inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Dot plots and macro projections serve as a pressure safety valve where disagreement can be hashed out, without harming the consistency of the policy message.

From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025

Elon Musk thinks humankind’s only safety valve is to move multitudes to Mars.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

There is one valve closed by a weight, although it is not in this case a safety valve; however, Papin describes the operation of such a valve.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton