precaution
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The game was due to be played on a Wednesday afternoon at Tottenham's White Hart Lane because the Ministry of Defence still occupied Highbury, which had been used as an Air Raid Precaution centre.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2020
According to legend, he was dared by his wife to write a novel -- his first was 1820's "Precaution," a book much inspired by Jane Austen.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2015
A Profitable Vestige of Cold War Precaution The owner of a home in Queens has not given much thought about the origin of the concrete and steel room buried beneath his basement.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2012
Air Raid Precaution women wanted ARP on their arms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of giving Remedies by Way of Precaution —— 531 Of Bleeding —— 532 Of Purges —— 540 Remedies to be used after excessive Purging —— 544 Reflections on some other Remedies —— 546, &c.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Vocabulary lists containing precaution
Power Prefix: pre-
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Bush's Address on 9/11
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"Women in Aviation," Vocabulary from the informational text
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