fail-safes
- present tense form of fail-safe (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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However, discussions of fall-backs and fail-safes have not been welcome in the Wales camp while the possibility of automatic qualification remains.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023
It needs fail-safes that make it easier for factories to restart after being shut.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2021
The local election board reported a simpler story: A new worker had incorrectly trashed the ballots, and its fail-safes had quickly identified the problem.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2020
Fortunately, though, the new generation of submarines are built with so many levels of redundancy and fail-safes, the chances of anything bad happening are remote.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 12, 2018
“Only the person who activated the STM can use it again. My mom has fail-safes against everything.”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
