imprudence
Example Sentences
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Critics say this "financial imprudence" has drained much of the country's economic resources and created unprecedented levels of debt that have crippled the economy.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2023
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said investigators would seek to “determine whether or not there was failure to respect a rule or individual imprudence that led to the explosion.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023
“The events of these days show the imprudence of not having further diversified our energy sources and our suppliers in the last decades,” he said last week.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022
This was a choice made willingly and without imprudence, grounded in the foundational values of my medical training—compassion for suffering, a desire to heal, a responsibility to mankind.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2020
Of how, with the imprudence of youth, the woman decided to test it to see if it really worked.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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