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prudential

[proo-den-shuhl] / pruˈdɛn ʃəl /


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It’s basic prudential supervision, and it’s well within the existing tool kit.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

More than ever, we need leaders with strong moral character, personal discipline and the ability to model prudential choices about when and how to use such a powerful technology.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025

Every four years the people as a whole make a solemn national decision as to the person whom they trust to make these prudential judgments.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

“Every jurisdiction and prudential consideration calls for this Court to allow the appeal to proceed first in the D.C. Circuit. ‘Haste makes waste’ is an old adage.

From Washington Times • Dec. 20, 2023

As usual in such cases, temptation silenced prudential remonstrance; so, changing their course, they gave chase.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.




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