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
Nguyen said that in the wake of this nationwide trend, the Asian community is fearful but is coming together and taking extra precautions to be safe.
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Deena Zaru, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024
If this is sounding familiar to you, take precautions:
Study up on cults.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
Without this precaution, the federal government will steer while the market merely rows, as CEI founder Fred L. Smith Jr. often expressed it.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Vance is preparing this family for an event where those precautions fail.
—John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
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Deena Zaru, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024
If this is sounding familiar to you, take precautions:
Study up on cults.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
Without this precaution, the federal government will steer while the market merely rows, as CEI founder Fred L. Smith Jr. often expressed it.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Vance is preparing this family for an event where those precautions fail.
—John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for precaution
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Without such safeguards in place, the darker side of power can take root and flourish unchecked.Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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That kind of engagement assures that AI initiatives not only drive growth but are also supported by solid safeguards to minimize risk.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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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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Recommendations include scaling back protection for foreign leaders during peak election season and exploring the possibility of moving the agency out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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The two countries approved a new trade deal with Canada, known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), that even some free-market advocates saw as an improvement on its predecessor NAFTA due to its enhanced protections for intellectual property and labor rights.Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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Western leaders have greeted the overthrow of the Assad dynasty by rebel forces with caution, fearing a power vacuum and more instability in the region.Sophie Kiderlin,Jenni Reid,Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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Fully horizontal meant that oncoming traffic should stop; when the arms were lowered to a 30-degree tilt, traffic could proceed with caution.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Precaution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precaution. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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