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playing it safe

ADJECTIVE

customary

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accepted traditional

WEAK

according to Hoyle accustomed acknowledged by the numbers chronic common confirmed conventional established everyday familiar fashionable frequent general habitual household in a rut in the groove normal ordinary orthodox popular prescriptive recognized regular regulation routine same old sop standard standard operating procedure stipulated understood universal wonted

Antonyms

WEAK

abnormal different irregular occasional rare sometime unusual

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If predecessor Gareth Southgate was criticised for being cloaked in conservatism and playing it safe, Tuchel's iron will in following his instincts has now effectively positioned himself as the anti-Southgate.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

And with AI, anyone playing it safe will get left behind.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

I think she realized that you can keep playing it safe, and life can still end up completely upside down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Investors are playing it safe, but it seems too early to panic.

From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025

The Consops cruiser was playing it safe, using its rocket exhaust as a great blowtorch to burn the surface of the asteroid clean!

From Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

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