How to Use safety net in a Sentence

safety net

noun
Definition of safety netnext
  • The program provides a safety net for people who have lost their jobs.
  • That is common sense, but already the holes in the safety net are growing wider.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
  • Now the family faces the prospect of rebuilding without a safety net.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Having such a large cash pool as a safety net is common among his clients today, Thackeray said.
    — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 26 July 2024
  • Today, Jenna’s Promise helps fill in those gaps, creating a safety net.
    — Meg Dunn, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The no sweat first bet is a promo offer that gives new customers the option to wager up to $1,000 with a safety net.
    — Xl Media, cleveland, 27 July 2022
  • In the end, with most of her love languages expressed and fulfilled, Lizzo is ready to shred whatever remains of her safety net.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2022
  • Without the safety net of legal abortions, a lot of people are thinking harder on contraception.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2022
  • The degree of access for those covered by Medi-Cal — the state’s safety net health insurance — also was not specified.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022
  • But on no issue has Mr. Manchin bedeviled Democrats more than on their ambitious social safety net, climate and tax package.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • Homeowners can also set aside a smaller amount of funds monthly to create an emergency safety net to provide a financial buffer when disaster strikes.
    — Bryan Koon, Sun Sentinel, 28 July 2024
  • The United States’ higher-ed financing system, for example, is built on this model: a social-safety net that is cast on credit, reeled in by debt.
    — Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022
  • What today’s retailers need may not reflect what tomorrow’s will need, but creating the most inflation-proof, pandemic-proof safety net possible is one of the best ways to move forward.
    — Philippe Lanier, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • And Grucci had a safety net to rely on: an inventory of fireworks stocked in 2019 that were left untouched during the first two years of the pandemic.
    — New York Times, 3 July 2022
  • The agreement falls far short of Mr. Biden’s initial proposals to vastly expand social safety net programs and pay for them by taxing corporations and high earners.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2022
  • The safety net at that time was, to use the modern term, a private one.
    — Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The patients left the hospital and fell through the safety net like sand.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Such a cushion provides the team with a huge safety net.
    — Mike Ozanian, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The fact is that no social safety net will ever replace a ...
    — Benjamin Watson, National Review, 12 May 2024
  • 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

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