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cautiously English

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What does cautiously mean?

cautiously

as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact she ventured cautiously downstairs they handled the incident with kid gloves (= conservatively) in a conservative manner we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000.

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Simple sentences

Life is as a box of matches. Treating it cautiously is foolish, not treating it cautiously is dangerous.
Drive cautiously.
As Tom and Mary's one-year dating anniversary passed, Tom's mother began to be cautiously optimistic that a wedding might soon be in the offing.
They entered cautiously.
Tom cautiously opened the envelope.
I'm cautiously optimistic.
Tom cautiously entered the room.

Movie subtitles

Proceed cautiously.
Cautiously, silently. a sound meant death. they climbed aboard, surprising the crew.
Your methods, so far as this court can discern, showed what we shall cautiously term an excess of zeal.
After all this, we at the munitions works better tread cautiously.
He cautiously travels the roads of Thessaly.
But all of you, cautiously please!
Now, go on cautiously.
Of course, every now and then, someone gets stopped, arrested. Which is why they live so cautiously.
We can be cautiously satisfied.
Yes, and until we know a bit more about these things, I think we should move very cautiously.
One thing I learned: Move calmly, move cautiously, you'll never be sorry.
Deal cautiously with my luggage.
I can only watch fascinated, while they move quietly and cautiously.
Nobody can say I don't proceed cautiously.
Cautious and cautiously.
He'd still get his hands dirty, but very cautiously.
Cautiously.
Move cautiously, Sergeant.
Medicine advances slowly, cautiously.
They approach one another cautiously.
Follow the vehicle cautiously.
I sat up cautiously liberated by the vomit's warmth, by the sweetish smell it gave off.
Act cautiously and discretely, stop.
Move calmly, move cautiously.
Billions of people could watch the unfolding adventure on their TV sets as the rover explores the ancient river bottoms or cautiously approaches the enigmatic pyramids of Elysium.
Live, Vovk, silently and cautiously.
We've kicked off cautiously so as not to leave anyone behind.
Step very cautiously. It is full of rotten planks.
Sort of cautiously happy.
The police are approaching cautiously now.
The atmosphere here is cautiously optimistic.
When he saw a pretty woman, he cautiously looked down, fearing an affair might have unfortunate consequences.
Slowly, cautiously, almost gently. the giant colossus. is placed on the launch site.

News and current affairs

As one scientist friend puts it: if you are driving on a mountain road, approaching a cliff, in a car whose brakes may fail, and a fog bank rolls in, should you drive more or less cautiously?
Although a long agenda of reforms is beginning to be tackled, first in Germany and, more recently and cautiously, in France, the results are slow in coming and public understanding of the need for change remains limited.
Like Franklin Roosevelt, who acted very cautiously in trying to persuade American opinion to abandon isolationism in the 1930's, Merkel has proceeded cautiously on saving the euro.
But it is equally unlikely that this achievement will end the insatiable hunt for more money. Let's assume, cautiously, that we are two-thirds of the way towards Keynes's target.
It is right for a democracy to repudiate a dictatorship, and the new Spanish law is cautiously drafted, but it is better to leave people free to express even unsavory political sympathies, for legal bans don't foster free thinking, they impede them.
Indeed, the International Monetary Fund's most recent report on the eurozone says as much (if cautiously).
Pent-up energy had to be released, but cautiously.
It appears that a new IMF has gradually, and cautiously, emerged under the leadership of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Money-market funds from the United States are returning, albeit cautiously, to resume funding of European bank debt.
Since the mid-l990's, they have been exploring--albeit cautiously and uncertainly--avenues of change, including flawed price liberalization many prices in mid-2002.
Behind the smiles, the polite interactions, and the cautiously worded diplomatic language, strong undercurrents of suspicion remain.
Without dismissing the downside risks, I remain cautiously optimistic about the global economy's prospects.
Events have similarly transformed Merkel from a cautiously calculating and often-slow decision-maker into a moral force.
Increased openness toward Europe and, more cautiously, the US encourages reform-minded members of Iran's middle class to seek their future inside the country, rather than emigrating.
And some factions of the Saudi family are reaching out - albeit cautiously - to civil-society actors, attempting to engage them in a dialogue about the country's future.
Now is a time not only to advance current research, but also to reflect and to tread cautiously.
But polls that put Ortega in the lead should be read cautiously, because many voters keep their views hidden.

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