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
In the face of heavy rain, these precautions can make a significant difference in ensuring your safety on the road.
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Bay Area Weather Report, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
Experts say vaccination would need to be managed with strict biosecurity measures — extra precautions to prevent vaccinated birds from becoming infected — to reduce the risk of genetic changes in the virus.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2025
Euless police said that students were evacuated as a precaution because of a bomb threat.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2025
Travelers are encouraged to exercise normal precautions in these nations and regions.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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Bay Area Weather Report, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
Experts say vaccination would need to be managed with strict biosecurity measures — extra precautions to prevent vaccinated birds from becoming infected — to reduce the risk of genetic changes in the virus.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2025
Euless police said that students were evacuated as a precaution because of a bomb threat.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2025
Travelers are encouraged to exercise normal precautions in these nations and regions.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for precaution
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Stay calm, keep your hands where officers can see them, and consider filming the interaction as unobtrusively as possible as a safeguard.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
9 Apr. 2025
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However, the reality is that the institutional DeFi opportunity is already stimulating innovation and industry development towards the kind of safeguards that institutions would demand.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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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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But although human vaccines function primarily as preventives, offering immunity to animals such as black-footed ferrets can be a conservation strategy of last resort.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2023
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The Trump administration can't immediately revoke the deportation protections and work permits of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who entered the U.S. legally under a Biden-era program, a federal judge ruled Monday.—
Camilo Montoya-Galvez,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2025
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The federal government has moved to strip hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans from lawfully obtained deportation protections and work permits.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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Larson led 411 of 500 laps during a race that had just one natural caution.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Apr. 2025
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Our only word of caution: Those memories and videos live on.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Precaution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precaution. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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