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be careless

verb as in jeopardize

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“You know, you’ve got to be able to play great defense without fouling. You’ve got to be able to trap the guy and not just try to steal the ball every time, close the traps. It’s just little things that I’m trying to put more discipline into what he does. Not be careless sometimes with his passing.”

“We’ve got to give it all we’ve got, and we can be hopeful that finally the progressive movement will inevitably win here in Thailand, but you can never be careless. There’s always mechanisms, invisible hands that resist change,” he said.

But that did not stop the alarms from constantly sounding, through a citywide system that blares monotone sirens in Kyiv or through phone applications that imitate their sound and play chilling voice messages such as “Attention! Air raid alert. Proceed to the nearest shelter. Don’t be careless, your overconfidence is your weakness.”

They’re smart, too, able to spot a soft touch or someone who’ll be careless with a french fry.

“Don’t be careless,” Hamill continues.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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