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unsafe

[uhn-sayf] / ʌnˈseɪf /


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"It ends up in facilities like ours where it will be touched by people and that's inherently unsafe."

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

“University officials have reached out to Pat to express appreciation and regret. We sincerely apologize for creating any perception that Pat was unsafe or unwelcome on our campus. Nothing could be further from the truth”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Many federal agencies also have civil enforcement powers to address unsafe, unfair, or deceptive business practices.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

An audit of almost 15,000 buildings by the National Building Inspectorate found that 4.8 percent were very dangerous, 72.3 percent were classified as unsafe, the report said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Still feeling unsafe, he went behind the sofa.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

I knew I was on unsafe ground, but it proves far unsafer than I had thought.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

In a word, tourism, especially in Charleston, erstwhile “Best City” in America, and north along the coast to Myrtle Beach — now among the unsafest places in the United States and, therefore, the world.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2020

It is generally agreed that the U. S. is one of the unsafest places in the civilized world to have a baby.

From Time Magazine Archive

He hired out quite the dirtiest and unsafest bicycles in the whole south of England, and conducted the subsequent discussions with astonishing verve.

From The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

She had been gone about an hour when a small telegraph boy appeared, and, after boarding the barge in the unsafest manner possible, handed him a telegram.

From Many Cargoes by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

The unsafest and the most unsatisfactory evidence in this world is evidence of conversation.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll


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