failsafe

[US]/'fel,sef/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. failsafe

Real-world Examples

He did these things believing there was a failsafe.

Source: CHERNOBYL HBO

And if think you might struggle, set yourself a fail-safe.

Source: Crash Course: Business in the Workplace

He'd have to have this identity in place as a fail-safe.

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Basic Deduction Method Season 2

But, enough mutations can bypass the fail-safes, driving the cell to divide recklessly.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

It was these fail-safes that triggered the alarms just before the lunar landing.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

I'm looking for a fail-safe outcome on the procedure.

Source: Good doctor

Those rods are like a fail-safe, they prevent the reactor from generating too much power.

Source: World Atlas of Wonders

If elite athletes go AWOL too often, they can be sanctioned. But as a fail-safe, it can be a useful tactic.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Within days, the electricity grid fails as fuel supplies run out and there's nobody to override the power station's failsafe mechanisms.

Source: BBC Ideas Selection (Bilingual)

Peseshet explains her fail-safe pregnancy test: plant two seeds: one barley, one emmer.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

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