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circumspectly

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“I’m happy for what the wedding means,” Laura added to The Associated Press very circumspectly, wiping tears away alongside her mothers.

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“I don’t go into this looking for villains,” Karsner said in an interview, circumspectly holding back on specific remedies.

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She began, circumspectly, by talking about Mirabelle, as she had been for months.

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You keep thinking that Buttler will tee off against Lyon, but he plays circumspectly with the ball still spinning big, and only keeps out the last ball rather than trying to work the strike.

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Classical economists from Adam Smith on typically depicted economic man as a rational creature, acting circumspectly in his own self-interest.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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