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- noun Plural form of
safe .
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Examples
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A crypto researcher named Matt Blaze wrote a paper called "Safecracking for the computer scientist" that detailed the common vulnerabilities in safes in use today (Bruce Schneier called the paper "excellent").
Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives 2005
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Opulent valuables belong in appropriate safes, which is where Döttling, a German-based creator of customized lockboxes, comes in.
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= -- A common usage with plumbers in the past has been to provide sinks, washbasins, bath tubs, and water-closets, not only with overflow pipes, but also with so-called safes, which consist of sheets of lead turned up several inches at the edge so as to catch all drippings and overflow from fixtures; from these safes a drip pipe or waste is conducted to the cellar, where it empties into a sink.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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Nice user-controlled smart cards to use as password safes are apparently too user-friendly for the titans of tech.
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Nice user-controlled smart cards to use as password safes are apparently too user-friendly for the titans of tech.
LinuxChix aggregator 2009
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It was one of those old-fashioned "safes" such as our grandmothers considered indispensable in the furnishing of
Jean of the Lazy A B. M. Bower 1905
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But those comic tricksters sent me the bottom-of-the-line LP Lock - a plastic piece of apparently made-in-China crap that you might find on those $29.95 "safes" available from the office supply store.
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But those comic tricksters sent me the bottom-of-the-line LP Lock - a plastic piece of apparently made-in-China crap that you might find on those $29.95 "safes" available from the office supply store.
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Always keep it in a safe place such as safes and safe deposit box.
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And after the squad "safes" it, you are probably gonna have about $700-$800 worth of little plastic bits.
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