Used in a Sentence

cautiously

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cautiously.

Editorial note

So it really depends on who you're working with; many businesses are making the move today, but cautiously.

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Quick take

In a cautious manner.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cautiously gathered in one view.

adverb

In a cautious manner.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cautiously.

Example sentences

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So it really depends on who you're working with; many businesses are making the move today, but cautiously.

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It can be regarded safe against most, if not all, non state level attackers, when used cautiously.

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They keep their distance if there's potential danger until they can approach the suspect cautiously, and ideally from multiple directions.

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I'm cautiously optimistic about this, but won't be using it to manage passwords for anything important -- yet.

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As noted below, Theo seems to be cautiously boarding the capabilities train with tame.

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If you work at Lyft, you have to be OK that Lyft hasn't expanded internationally yet as they're cautiously focusing on the US.

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I think I would somewhat cautiously state that it isn't something that is possible to mitigate.

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I'm cautiously optimistic about their sudden benevolence towards open source in general.

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They're very cautiously dipping their toe in the water given the holy shitstorm that happened a couple years ago when they announced they were going to block third party cookies by default.

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I am cautiously optimistic about this direction.

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'Because Freedom Can't Protect Itself.' I am cautiously optimistic and giving monthly to those who are on the front lines of this protracted struggle.

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If you don't tread cautiously, you get an army of sales drones calling you for the next year at all times during the day in addition to a never-ending, unfilterable drove of sales emails clogging your inbox.

Quote examples

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So my position is "cautiously optimistic".

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Let's not count our chickens before they hatch: "Harry Metcalfe, who helped sites get at postcode data, said he was "cautiously optimistic" about the decision to open up the OS data sets.

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The Google car is described as "Applying the brakes in response to its detection of the other vehicle's speed and trajectory"...since the collision ended up happening anyway, and it hit the rear of the Google car...doesn't that imply that if the Google car hadn't cautiously applied the brakes while going through the intersection, it would have cleared the intersection without getting hit?

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Interesting quote from the article: "Jeff also relayed an interesting philosophy from Mark Zuckerberg: 'Work fast and don’t be afraid to break things.' Overall, the idea to avoid working cautiously the entire year, delivering rock-solid code, but not much of it.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cautiously in a sentence?

So it really depends on who you're working with; many businesses are making the move today, but cautiously.

What does cautiously mean?

In a cautious manner.

What part of speech is cautiously?

cautiously is commonly used as adverb.