cautiousness

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Leonardo’s cautiousness could be due to the integration of the recently acquired defense business of Iveco and foreign-exchange headwinds, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

"So in theory, yes, it's safe. In reality, we can sometimes be a bit more cautious, but that cautiousness is a postcode lottery."

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

"There is a strong cautiousness about taking fresh positions ahead of tomorrow," said Naomi Muguruma, senior market economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.

From Reuters • Jan. 17, 2023

Slow tempos and a general sense of cautiousness resulted in a lack of dramatic propulsion.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2022

In inheriting blindness, therefore, a man could well be said to have inherited cautiousness; in inheriting deafness, suspiciousness would seem to have come to him by inheritance.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)