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  • noun Plural form of safe.

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Examples

  • 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

  • Opulent valuables belong in appropriate safes, which is where Döttling, a German-based creator of customized lockboxes, comes in.

    Platinum Protection © SAFE SAFE system SAFE... 2006

  • = -- 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

  • Nice user-controlled smart cards to use as password safes are apparently too user-friendly for the titans of tech.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Nice user-controlled smart cards to use as password safes are apparently too user-friendly for the titans of tech.

    LinuxChix aggregator 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Michael Bane Blog 2009

  • 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.

    The Michael Bane Blog 2009

  • Always keep it in a safe place such as safes and safe deposit box.

    Shaister Miester Do Da 2009

  • And after the squad "safes" it, you are probably gonna have about $700-$800 worth of little plastic bits.

    Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech 2009

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