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“We’re incautiously optimistic—buy hot garbage,” advised none of the big investment firms a year ago in their 2025 outlooks.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Fury toward Gates for appearing to present this information incautiously or for referring to the Mayflower's passengers – colonizers – as "people who laid the foundation for this country."

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023

Those dreams range from cautiously optimistic to … incautiously optimistic.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2019

He was hurrying away to make good his promise, when I detained him, alarmed at the effect of incautiously rousing Turkey’s combativeness after dinner.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2015

He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine




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