conservatism

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Business customers have been slow to adopt artificial-intelligence tools in a systematic way, but some of that conservatism is beginning to fade.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Other analysts liked that American has already included the storm’s effects and some conservatism in its guidance for the current quarter.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

The adjacency arises from the Virginian’s embrace of those parts of the president’s agenda that cohere with an older American conservatism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

These are the mainstream of Australian conservatism and the Australian right.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

Was there anything about the Chinese environment predisposing toward Confucian philosophy and cultural conservatism, which may also have profoundly affected history?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond