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  1. Fail Safe

    Earth finds itself threatened by something even larger than the Goa'uld when the team learns that an asteroid is on a collision course with the planet.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fail safe in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fail safe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of fail safe in a Sentence

  1. Mike Vrabel:

    It is important because there is no fail safe, we’ve proven that. All we can try to do is maximize our ability to stay safe, to function as a team, to keep our families safe, to do our jobs and do them well.

  2. Fred Wertheimer:

    There has never been anything like this at the presidential level because no President has insisted on owning a commercial enterprise at the same time they have existed as President, everyone in America is financially struggling, and he has this fail-safe method to minimize any struggling by his commercial properties by channeling other people's money to it.

  3. John Kerry:

    We need to make certain, given the new circumstances that we're facing, that there is no potential loophole whatsoever, obviously it has to be fail-safe, and that's what the American people need and deserve.

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