How to Use safety net in a Sentence

safety net

noun
  • The program provides a safety net for people who have lost their jobs.
  • And those little things add up to something of a safety net.
    Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • This no-sweat bet acts as a safety net for new bettors in Ohio.
    cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • There’s no one that’s going to be a safety net or anyone to fall back on.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, even the best, most expensive safety net can fail.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 24 June 2023
  • Think of the $1,000 first-bet offer as a safety net on your initial wager.
    Catena Media, al, 29 Jan. 2023
  • But a real safety net was those scripts, having the comedic beats that were all written out to push.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • But that crude model also means there is a lighter safety net.
    Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
  • But in recent weeks, that safety net has been cut into.
    Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Much of her money goes toward maintaining her van and the food pantry is a safety net to fall back on.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Clearly, the nuances of a concept like the social safety net are beyond the program.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2023
  • If that approach gives you a safety net, great, but that might not be the prevailing across Bengal Land.
    The Enquirer, 29 Dec. 2022
  • However, the same safety net does not exist for cannabis.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 16 Sep. 2023
  • For most of the year, schools are essential safety nets for supporting kids.
    Michelle S. Livings, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The kids can afford to dream and many, if not most, perform here with the safety net of AHL Providence beneath their feet.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The Golden Gate Bridge is almost finished adding safety nets.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Democrats control the Senate and the White House, and will likely not be amenable to adding hurdles to accessing the social safety net.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • This comfy carrier doubles as a safety net for your pooch while on a plane, train, bus or, of course, car.
    Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 11 Oct. 2022
  • A lot of your choices were driven by being a person in New York without a safety net.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Players who sign up with this offer will be able to place an initial wager with a $1,500 safety net.
    cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Chinese households have long been some of the most prodigious savers on earth, owing to the fact that social safety nets are meager.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Gaiser considers these options more of a safety net than a chess move.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Trump consistently aimed to cut the safety net during his term.
    Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • But even that safety net could be stretched to its limits this summer with widespread heatwaves.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 26 June 2023
  • There's a safety net around it, which is really awesome.
    Town & Country, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Expanding the Medicaid safety net for children and the poor?
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But over the last few years, Connecticut has managed to amass a $3.3 billion safety net, even while paying down debt.
    Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Preckwinkle thinks cash aid should be a permanent part of the social safety net.
    Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Proponents of the cap plan see it as a sort of safety net, a way to offset the strict E.U. sanctions on Russia by keeping the market moving.
    Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • In doing so, the Eagles’ owner was tearing away a proverbial safety net.
    Justin Birnbaum, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023

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