precautious

Example Sentences

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“Are we being overly precautious? Maybe. But particularly with your cardiac history, you’re at higher risk.”

From Scientific American • Jun. 10, 2022

"We are always hoping against hope, but it's still too early to take our eye off a very precautious approach."

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021

Lawmakers and regulators face incentives to take an extremely precautious approach, seeking to minimize all possibility of danger.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2019

I've always noticed that these directions for use are too precautious.

From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.

However precautious this plan of payment may have been, it probably led to Noll spending more on incidental outlays than he otherwise would have done with a weekly reckoning to meet.

From Oliver Goldsmith by Buckland, E. S. Lang