unsafe
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Being able to see the internal parts through its socket holes can be a sign it is unsafe - they should have safety shutters instead.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
What’s more, the government said, the positive sample was discovered in lettuce that wasn’t covered by Taylor’s recall, suggesting there could be additional product that was unsafe to eat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Scientists led by UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography are warning that oxygen is disappearing rapidly from oceans and freshwater systems, potentially pushing the planet into an "unsafe space."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
The bill has passed through two state Senate committee hearings, helped by testimony from McKinnor and witnesses who have lost loved ones to accidents and offered accounts they had seen of unsafe driving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Beyond it being entirely unsafe, he had no desire for the scrutiny of living animals.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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 Darwin, Francis, Sir
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
Intense feeling is apt to build upon a half-truth—the unsafest of all foundations.
From Men in the Making by Shepherd, Ambrose
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 Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
Of all vehicles, on land or sea, to which man intrusts himself, the kayak is safest and unsafest.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
