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prudential

[proo-den-shuhl] / pruˈdɛn ʃəl /


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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

SYDNEY—The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has established a new committee for the conduct of financial policy, giving it power over issues around financial stability and prudential issues for banks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 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. 21, 2023

Funding from what is known as prudential borrowing was agreed by councillors in March, but the amount needed was not made public due to commercial confidentiality.

From BBC • May 31, 2023

This alteration in his condition effected, from prudential motives, some change in his mode of acting, if not of thinking.

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John