precaution

Example Sentences

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Mobile phone services were jammed, and regional train services were suspended as a precaution.

From BBC

The toxin is rare and difficult to detect, and some recalls have been carried out as a precaution, some manufacturers said.

From Barron's

“The Court did not assign any bad intent to any of the parties, but did this simply as an extra precaution,” Dunn said in an email.

From Los Angeles Times

“We’re supposed to be turning pots and pans into Spitfires, removing distributors, rationing tea. What use are precautions if no one will mind them?”

From Literature

The lawsuit states that both the IRS and Treasury Department "had a duty to safeguard and protect" such disclosures from being shared publicly but "failed to take such mandatory precautions".

From BBC