safeguard
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"The government supports initiatives that benefit citizens, particularly those that safeguard the country’s security and energy infrastructure."
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
My earlier analysis pointed to the three bulwarks against attempted election subversion—the state and local governments that administer elections, the courts that protect rights, and the American people who are democracy’s ultimate safeguard.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
In July, it announced a 15-nation maritime alliance to safeguard shipping through the Red Sea, the Bab al Mandab strait and the Gulf of Aden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Central banks have a responsibility to safeguard the stability of the whole system. We cannot stand aside and assume that technological progress will resolve these questions on its own.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Britain relied on its navy to safeguard the trade routes that brought riches to the small, densely populated British Isles and helped feed the British people.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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He also issued an executive order to speed up the development of safeguards, including a “kill switch” in case humans lose control of AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Unified School District to add more security cameras on campus, install more safeguards along railings and ensure all campuses have police officers staffed on site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
We must institute safeguards that make expertise trustworthy: transparency about uncertainty, protection for those who test it, and real consequences when things go wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Lan said the sentence showed that unlicensed gambling was not a "victimless offence" and warned those who profit from it while ignoring safeguards designed to protect people "can expect to be brought before the courts".
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
There were multiple safeguards to prevent the accidental release of a virus like Marburg Cardinal.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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"The government will ensure that the company as a whole remains viable for the future and that Germany's security of supply is safeguarded," the spokeswoman said.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
The executive pointed to China, as well as Japan and South Korea—which both allow the sale of Chinese cars—as examples of countries that successfully safeguarded their domestic auto industries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
"Anyone who came over the threshold of a church was supposed to be safeguarded irrespective of their age or gender or background," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
"Each official position is safeguarded with a co-chair system which dictates that one must be a woman," he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Even my father, who safeguarded his possessions with a military order and zeal, never bothered with it, considering it a colony of junk that was mine.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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They said there were "no immediate safeguarding concerns".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Nieuwenhuijsen reached out to Kars, who connected her with the middle-aged Dutch couple who had been safeguarding a sheaf of old Sablonière family letters in bundles of plastic bags—and were Nieuwenhuijsen’s own long-lost cousins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
That extends well beyond the information available to patients through the NHS app and may include safeguarding concerns, risk assessments, correspondence between healthcare professionals and detailed consultation notes.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Measures that reduced disturbances generated the largest benefits for forest biodiversity and were nearly as important as preventing outright deforestation when it came to safeguarding carbon stocks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Who is safeguarding the consumer to see that no residues of dieldrin or heptachlor are appearing in milk?
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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