incautiously
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But he surely understood that this was an incautiously brief period of measurement, for the river’s annual flow was wildly variable, ranging from about 9.1 million to 25 million acre-feet during the 20-year sampling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“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 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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