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- adjective very
safe
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Examples
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The fallout has shown up in all manner of investments as investors shed assets in exchange for cash or supersafe U.S. Treasurys and German bonds.
Turmoil Hits Even Asia's Bastions Alex Frangos 2011
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As a result, Mr. Frankel said, the EFSF could possibly pay a "spread" over supersafe German bonds that is even narrower than that paid by comparable agencies.
Europe's Empty Pitch: Officials Tout Bonds They Hope Not to Use Mark Gongloff 2010
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The secondary characters are a stock assortment of supersafe ethnic types, and Carroll's protosurrealism has been watered down into an ultrawholesome sermonette so vapid that Polonius would have blushed to deliver it: "We move too fast / We miss too much / We seldom see / All the miracles in front of us."
Turner, in Her Usual Role Terry Teachout 2011
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At least one of these investors added another layer of complexity by purchasing "insurance" on its supposedly supersafe investment via a credit-default swap.
The Mortgage Hangover Nicole Gelinas 2011
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At the same time, increased uncertainty has meant investors have been slower to move out of supersafe Treasurys into corporate bonds, leaving more opportunities for those willing to take that risk.
Bubble in Corporate Bonds? Portfolio Managers Mostly Say No Katy Burne 2011
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Prices for supersafe Treasury bonds—which tend to move in the opposite direction of stocks—barely budged.
Careful Day Caps Big Week for Dow Matt Phillips 2011
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But such subtleties of characterization are not Mr. Lindsay-Abaire's stock in trade: He is, rather, a commodity trader, and "Good People" is a choice example of his wares, a supersafe play that takes supremely great care to tell its viewers only what they want to hear.
Lindsay-Abaire's Southie Class Portrait Terry Teachout 2011
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These school holidays were always supersafe, Ellen told herself, despite her instinctive misgivings.
The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010
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Get ready for thorium, the supersafe, green and clean, massively abundant fuel of the future.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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The added plus is that you live in a Mafia neighborhood like Bayridge, Brooklyn, you're supersafe.
"You have a trifecta — gangsters, Italian-Americans, New Jersey — wedded in the popular American imagination." Ann Althouse 2008
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