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
They were taken to the hospital as a precaution after being assessed by Gilbert firefighters, police said.
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Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2024
However, the company is still recalling the tortilla strips as a precaution.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2024
He was later taken to the hospital as a precaution, according to a team spokesperson.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
Health officials said Beans & Barley and the infected employee have been cooperative and that the employee took precautions after developing symptoms.
—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2024
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Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2024
However, the company is still recalling the tortilla strips as a precaution.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2024
He was later taken to the hospital as a precaution, according to a team spokesperson.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
Health officials said Beans & Barley and the infected employee have been cooperative and that the employee took precautions after developing symptoms.
—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for precaution
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However, Powell said there are safeguards in congressional legislation that will help preserve the Fed from political influences.Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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In essence, China is hinting at a future where the traditional safeguards of military and government communications may be inadequate without a shift toward quantum-secure encryption—a shift that China, as a pioneer, seems eager to lead.Skip Sanzeri, Forbes, 4 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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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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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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“Precaution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precaution. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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