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Answer for the clue "Skid-preventing, as auto brakes ", 8 letters:
antilock

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a. (alternative spelling of anti-lock English)

Usage examples of antilock.

Cheshire Bridge Road I cruised the sex bars until I found the car I wanted, a dark, late-model Volvo with multiple air-bags and antilock brakes.

The antilock braking system shuddered and held, pulling her gradually out of the skid.

While she waited for the big silver Buick to rock to a stop, she flashed back on the white smile and manicured hands of the good-looking car salesman who spent a whole afternoon convincing her to pay extra for antilock brakes.

Then, by midday, after the Rocky Mountain sunshine has a chance to put a nice transparent glaze on the ice, the casting room would be booked nonstop with broken bones from pedestrians who had failed to navigate on the ice, and motorists who thought antilock brakes could stop on Teflon.

Titov reached the middle of the block, where he pressed the brakes hard, the antilock mechanism safely halting the dark sedan without skidding.

He instinctively jammed on the brakes, and felt the staccato pump of the antilock system, but too late.

The antilocks throbbed and the Caddy stopped just short of running over a woman in a white choir robe.

Another car would have screeched to a halt, but the antilocks quietly eased the sedan to a stop a few feet from the unstartled animal.

Then he throbbed to a halt (computerized antilock braking system) and slumped over on his horn button.