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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Humor can be a safety valve in high pressure situations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Do these eruptions act as a safety valve or will they lead to a cataclysm?
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Fortuitously, the advancing Union forces operated as a safety valve .
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It is a safety valve , you might say a brothel of the mind.
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So far the devaluation has acted as a safety valve for the most immediate pressures.
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Sometimes, a safety valve may be fitted into the boiler flow pipe; a draincock is always fitted in the return.
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Then an interesting phenomenon takes place: they become a safety valve .