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  • adjective comparative form of safe: more safe

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Examples

  • Even if this statistic isn´t accurate, the major dangers of smoking tobacco cigarettes is commonly known, so when a product is launched that claims to be much safer and when common sense would say that if all these dangerous toxins have been removed, even if the electronic cigarette cannot be proved officially ´safe´, surely it does actually have to be ´safer´?

    American Chronicle 2009

  • Bush: Escalating threats in Iraq and elsewhere, but we're 'safer' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Bush: Escalating threats in Iraq and elsewhere, but we\'re \'safer\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: There is a dangerous denial that is being practiced in the administration campaign to portray their invasion and continued occupation of Iraq as a military and ideological success, and conversely, to portray Iraq as a cauldron of terror that would escalate into more of a threat to the U.S. if we withdraw our troops. '

    Bush: Escalating threats in Iraq and elsewhere, but we're 'safer' 2006

  • And by these means the opposition to enemy ideologies can in one sense be overcome with a commitment to the notion that inclusion increases safety: "the more political liberty [the people] have, the safer is their civil liberty," Priestley writes.

    Romantic Fear 2008

  • Terranova said he preferred the copper trade, while Pete Najarian liked what he called the safer rails trade.

    'Fast Money' Recap: Microsoft-Adobe Rumors - TheStreet 2010

  • Pat Govang's company, e2e Materials, spent two and a half years developing what it calls a safer, superior, environmentally-friendly alternative to engineered wood products.

    News Channel 9: Local News 2009

  • If they think making us ‘feel’ safer is just as good as making us actually ‘be’ safer then maybe they think corrugated coppers are as good as real flesh and blood ones.

    ‘Single Crewed’ In Ruralshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • The reality of whether it actually MADE them safer is irrelevant.

    Think Progress » CIA’s top spy: U.S. intelligence hasn’t ‘suffered at all’ from banning waterboading. 2010

  • Much easier and safer is maintaining the status quo and trying to hang onto the users who, for whatever reason, are still updating their profiles.

    Why MySpace Is Really GeoCities 2.0 2009

  • Hulling the ship with a small torpedoe or manually placed explosive would have been safer from a PR standpoint.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed 2010

  • The premise for Ares/Orion being safer is that TPS would not be exposed and the potential use of a LAS would mitigate emergencies.

    Report - Don't Extend Shuttle Program - NASA Watch 2009

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