foolproof

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Ian Chappell: Technology isn't foolproof, and the umpiring referral system itself is a long way from being so

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  1. adjective Designed so as to be impervious to human incompetence, error, or misuse: a foolproof detonator; a foolproof safety lock.
  2. adjective Effective; infallible: a foolproof scheme.

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  • Not as something that was foolproof, but as an idea to think about. —  David Keith's unusual climate change idea
  • It's foolproof, and it's not yet even taken place!' —  dummy 3
  • Hugh was no lawyer but the lawyers he had consulted in London all agreed that the marriage contract between Guinevere and Roger Needham and its later addendum where he ceded her title to the disputed land were foolproof, as long as the lands had actually been in the gift of Roger Needham. —  THE WIDOW’S KISS
  • But DRM technologies are far from foolproof, and the ones developed so far have been easily circumvented by adept hackers, said Ian Brown, a senior research manager at the Cambridge-MIT Institute in England. —  IT & Security Portal» IT-Observer
  • But no precaution is foolproof, and death sometimes means being in the wrong place at the wrong time. —  Taipei Times
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