How To Use Overcautious In A Sentence
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A recent examination of the cutting applied to bottles fitted into hallmarked frames has proved time-honoured views about dating early English cutting to have been overcautious.
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He, too, played overcautiously, taking 55 minutes over a scratchy seven.
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Everyone but Lincoln had lost patience with McClellan's overcautiousness and when he failed to follow Lee's retreat from Antietam, Lincoln removed him and placed in command Burnside, whose defeat at
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However, don't let yourself become boring and overcautious.
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However, Murphy soon gave the impression that he was a cautious man working for an overcautious board and progress was simply too slow.
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In many cases, lenders have been overcautious.
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State entities tend to be overcautious and complacent.
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It appears that this game does not reward overcautiousness because by being too focussed on one's own protection, one's pieces will be slower to get to the end of the board while one's opponent's pieces may pass one by.
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Don't fall into the trap of being overcautious.
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This wasn't merely overcautiousness or simple misjudgment.
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David had observed Captain Esteban's tendency toward overcautiousness.
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Some journalists missed the opportunity because they were overcautious and tended to shackle themselves.
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The proceeds are not shared with the public at large, and the effects are not to change physician medical behavior, but instead to practice overcautiousness, in word, deed, and testing.
"Every time you post, recite the following to yourself as though it were a mantra: 'I am cutting rope with which to hang myself....'"
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Nothing struck him odd about his father drafting a will, Peterson testified, saying his father was "overcautious" and would draft new wills anytime he took a vacation.
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Although you're generally a risk-taker and consider most of your friends and colleagues at least slightly overcautious, I suggest you trust them this week.
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The road in life, uphill to swagger, downhill to be timid and overcautious, way to go straight ahead, take a road to overlooking the foot.
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Mr. Lincoln had told McClellan during his visit to the army that his great fault was "overcautiousness.
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The road in life, uphill to swagger, downhill to be timid and overcautious, way to go straight ahead, take a road to overlooking the foot.
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The potential for skateboarders to injure themselves has invoked the insurance industry's wrath in the form of overcautious safety requirements.
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The Dalai Lama termed India's attitude towards Tibet issue "overcautious" and said he could be the "last Dalai Lama".
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He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
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The road in life, uphill to swagger, downhill to be timid and overcautious, way to go straight ahead, take a road to overlooking the foot.
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His government is overcautious to the point of conservatism.
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Perhaps, but likely as not he is being overcautious.
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sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business
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I have a feeling that these guys don't have insurance, and are extremely overcautious when jousting.
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But being overcautious can lead to danger.
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Perhaps more telling than Bill Clinton’s self - investigation is a subsidiary detail: He also asked his staffers to compile an exhaustive list of his achievements, which must be about as close to the creation of a résumé as ex-presidents get, and betrays a longing to return to the presidential campaign trail that Al Gore overcautiously denied him.
Running Mate
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It also made teachers and lecturers overcautious.
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His articulate grasp of issues and willingness to say risky things will favorably contrast him with the overcautious candidates who parse every poll-tested word.
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On the other hand overcautious, be afraid that policy changes, await wait - and - see .
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No. I've been thinking euphemisms like 'overcautious' and 'reluctance to risk bodily harm.'
Crashlander
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In fact, because I have an overcautious habit of pulling up the storm jib on the inner forestay whenever the weather forecast is bad and the wind rises above about 25 knots, I can actually claim to have left the safety of the cockpit in over 35 knots of wind only once.
True Spirit
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But unlike some scares based on rumors or overcautiousness, the alarm among parishioners at a Long Island church this week is based on a confirmed finding: Someone who touched the communion wafers distributed at two packed services on Christmas Day was infected with hepatitis A.
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An overcautious approach makes for dull environments.
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It is not hard to understand that this kind of overcautious indecision on the part of the commander of the greatest fighting force in modern history is indeed unprecedented, and can only serve to embolden our enemies.
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What I'm saying, in the end, is that e-voting must be implemented properly, overcautiously, overzealously guarded and protected.
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I saw how fame had made him retreat and become overcautious.
Fallin’ Up
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One cannot be overcautious of someone as naive as that.
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The suspicion, though, must be that the numbers in the market were left overcautious.
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Canada doesn't often dispatch warships to respond to political crises, so the Charlottetown is a symbol the Harper government wants to shed the sense it has reacted overcautiously to unrest in the region.
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And in the current climate of falling property prices, valuers are being overcautious.
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So it's not surprising that in their efforts to weed out fraudulent transactions, some are being overcautious and blocking legitimate sales as well.
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My hypothesis is that ‘the authorities’ are not just being overcautious, but that they've gone entirely over the edge and that these things are not at all dangerous.
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The weathermen became overcautious and even attempted to evade the media.
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You might think I'm being overcautious, but that's because I inexplicably failed to mention that I saw him on my last flight to Chicago and he insisted on sitting next to me.
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If it turns out that you were indeed overcautious then you might be able to reduce your rate of saving as retirement nears or console yourself by spending or distributing the extra cash as your heart desires.
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One wonders if he is being overcautious, since there is a developmental thread connecting his four cases.
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Were we overcautious in adopting a six-day blanket flying ban?
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When using the roads, we will all notice the reckless or overcautious motorist, but would we pay any attention to the good driver?
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The gentleman is overcautious in his work.
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Under certain circumstances, keen drivers may find their intervention overcautious.
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For he is extremely constrained in what he can say by politicians, overcautious defence officials responsible for military operations, and the MoD civil service bureaucracy.
Hugh Muir's diary
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The next day, G. W. Smith had made fumbling and overcautious efforts to continue the battle and, on June 2, had suffered an illness which he described as paralysis.
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