Example Sentences

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"It strips a kid of the feeling of belonging. It strips away safeness, shelter, trust. Imagine a kid bowling around with no one to talk to. That was me."

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

What Bargatze cultivates in comedy is a radical sense of safeness at a time when things feel hopelessly the opposite.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

Yoon in a statement on Facebook said the deal reaffirms South Korea’s “advanced technology and safeness and strong supply chains” in the nuclear power industry.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022

If the city has traditionally been knocked for anything, it’s that very safeness; a detour here ranks as low on the daredevilry scale as those T-bills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2016

It spoils you, this sense of safeness that goes with the honesty graft.

From In the Bishop's Carriage by Michelson, Miriam