as in safeguard
a measure taken to preclude loss or injury
as parents of young children, they have taken the usual precaution of locking up their household cleansers
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Recent Examples of precaution
When using apple cider vinegar, certain precautions should be taken to avoid side effects, and some people may need to avoid using it altogether.
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Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 24 Feb. 2025
Follow directions on the bottle that spell out safety precautions, including dangerous mixtures.
—Matt Fuchs, TIME, 21 Feb. 2025
And, because of that elevated risk, machines that use glass bottles need additional design precautions to make the product safe to use, typically in the form of a safety cover that conceals the bottle when the machine is in action.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 21 Feb. 2025
Wait for official clearance before heading back and follow officials' safety precautions once allowed in.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025
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Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 24 Feb. 2025
Follow directions on the bottle that spell out safety precautions, including dangerous mixtures.
—Matt Fuchs, TIME, 21 Feb. 2025
And, because of that elevated risk, machines that use glass bottles need additional design precautions to make the product safe to use, typically in the form of a safety cover that conceals the bottle when the machine is in action.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 21 Feb. 2025
Wait for official clearance before heading back and follow officials' safety precautions once allowed in.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for precaution
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The safeguards are important, the lawmakers said, because identity theft or bankruptcy can mean a loss of a security clearance or the end of a service member’s career.—
Melissa Chan,
NBC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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This optimism is encouraging but is tempered by a consensus that to deliver on its transformational potential, AI must be implemented in a responsible and thoughtful manner – 97.5% of executives believe that responsible AI safeguards and guardrails for governing AI must be in place.—
Randy Bean,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Indeed, failure to do so proved disastrous for some early human trials of preventives.—
David J. Waters,
Scientific American,
1 Sep. 2015
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Padlocks, sickles and other objects made of iron, a metal said to possess anti-demonic powers, were stashed in the grave as preventives.—
Franz Lidz,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2023
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Whether the deletion was intentional, like a former employee deleting the data on 180 servers, or unintentional, like an accidental deletion causing a major outage for a social network, relying on redundancy as your only protection isn’t enough.—
Nick Martin,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Thousands of probationary employees have already been dismissed, and the administration is now shifting its focus to career officials with civil service protections.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Blaney was sent spinning, and a caution flag came out.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
24 Feb. 2025
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Brzeski also urged caution over the ability of a centrist government, which will likely be made up of a CDU-CSU and SPD coalition, to keep the more extreme parties at bay.—
Sophie Kiderlin,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Precaution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precaution. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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