safeguard
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SAL said it has a responsibility to safeguard both the singer’s legacy and the people involved in maintaining it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
"The government supports initiatives that benefit citizens, particularly those that safeguard the country’s security and energy infrastructure."
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Federal regulations require trading venues to meet stringent standards to deter manipulation and abusive trading practices, ensure orderly and transparent trading, prevent conflicts of interest and safeguard customer funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
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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But Xuan and Zhang, the attorneys said, were able to sidestep what few safeguards exist in the generally unregulated U.S. surrogacy industry by creating their own firm, Mark Surrogacy Investments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Microsoft co-founder said the risk of AI "getting out of control" remained years away and emphasized that the immediate concern was "bad people" using existing systems without safeguards.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
But the safeguards "do not diminish the seriousness of an AI system presenting fabricated information as though it came from a person with knowledge of a homicide," the police statement said.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
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
My stomach feels like it’s on a roller coaster with no safeguards.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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"The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
"Her bravery and resilience has meant that we've safeguarded so many other people, that this person could have continued doing these offences to," she adds.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
These kinds of investigations hint at a larger reality in the Ecuadorean province, where modern life bends around an ecosystem so fiercely safeguarded that wildlife effectively holds legal right of way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Robert Gunn, station director of Sizewell B, said the deal would ensure hundreds of jobs were safeguarded.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
According to the Pukhtunwali code of panah, or asylum, if a person asks for protection against his enemies, the person, in this case Osama, would be safeguarded at all costs.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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But some fault will lie with the private sector for not safeguarding its defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
"Of course, where there is a credible safeguarding concern, a significant change in behaviour, or a known risk to their wellbeing, parents should act."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
But her main accomplishment may have been inadvertently to keep new ideas about Amazonian history from the public eye—ideas about its past that may, according to their advocates, play a role in safeguarding its future.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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