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precautious

[pri-kaw-shuhs] / prɪˈkɔ ʃəs /


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“Are we being overly precautious? Maybe. But particularly with your cardiac history, you’re at higher risk.”

From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2022

"We are always hoping against hope, but it's still too early to take our eye off a very precautious approach."

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021

Lawmakers and regulators face incentives to take an extremely precautious approach, seeking to minimize all possibility of danger.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2019

However precautious this plan of payment may have been, it probably led to Noll spending more on incidental outlays than he otherwise would have done with a weekly reckoning to meet.

From Oliver Goldsmith by E. S. Lang Buckland

Thus precautious we landed near the village, but were still a good way from the place were we intended to fill our casks.

From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo


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