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prudential

[proo-den-shuhl] / pruˈdɛn ʃəl /


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It’s basic prudential supervision, and it’s well within the existing tool kit.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

More than ever, we need leaders with strong moral character, personal discipline and the ability to model prudential choices about when and how to use such a powerful technology.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025

Every four years the people as a whole make a solemn national decision as to the person whom they trust to make these prudential judgments.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

“Every jurisdiction and prudential consideration calls for this Court to allow the appeal to proceed first in the D.C. Circuit. ‘Haste makes waste’ is an old adage.

From Washington Times • Dec. 20, 2023

This step was deemed prudential for many reasons, the chief of which was the great difficulty the company experienced in running the water and sewerage systems separately.

From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by Stewart, George