prudent
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RBI Gov. Sanjay Malhotra said the monetary board judged it prudent to wait, citing the war’s likely impairment of economic activity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
With less pressure to meet quarterly targets, companies could focus more on the investment, innovation and prudent risk-taking that help drive long-term growth.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
The committee’s authority is limited to very uncommon circumstances in which there are no “reasonable and prudent alternatives” that would avoid jeopardizing a listed species or impair a species’ critical habitat.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
A prudent pullback toward the low-to- mid $50s makes sense in the near term.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
And what appears in retrospect like a prudent and farsighted vision of the national interest looked to Jefferson like a betrayal of the American Revolution.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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