Used in a Sentence

conservatively

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

Editorial note

In C and C++ you can conservatively eliminate unused code for statically linked libraries using --gc-sections and -fdata-sections.

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Quick take

In a conservative manner.

Meaning at a glance

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

adverb

In a conservative manner.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for conservatively.

Example sentences

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In C and C++ you can conservatively eliminate unused code for statically linked libraries using --gc-sections and -fdata-sections.

2

A two income family (pretty tough to live in SF if you aren't) means daycare - and daycare costs, conservatively, over $2,000 a month per kid.

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When you factor in depreciation, 1TB of HDD is conservatively worth half of what 1TB of SSD is worth.

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Investing $1M conservatively and moving to the third world might get you a reasonable standard of living, but that's not what people mean when they say rich.

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Once you get into compiling, you have to make some more choices, which Python conservatively forfeits.

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Somebody just made a conservatively a few million bucks in about an hour's worth of work.

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They might move a little more conservatively, but they have owners with skin in the game and customers to keep happy.

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Python tries to find a middle ground, conservatively.

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Let's estimate, conservatively, that he owned 800 CDs.

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My in-laws, who lived 2/3rds of their lives under communism, have already retired simply because they spent less than they made (of their paltry incomes) and invested it conservatively.

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It's that for a company with 24 employees - or, very conservatively, a 4-5MM annual burn - 30MM simply isn't a very good exit, no matter how big that number sounds.

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I think people are too hung up on how programming seems to be newly ushered in by technology, despite its theoretical origins more than a century ago (very conservatively speaking).

Quote examples

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That's what I mean by "Python being conservatively non-ideological"; they don't want to add features that are controversial in the programmer's community.

2

RL also sells "taste", that is, it is a "safe" choice if you are trying to dress conservatively.

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> I guess that's what the whole "invest more conservatively as you get older" thing is supposed to help with?

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Perhaps that's small comfort for someone who's set to retire the month after one of these 30% crashes, but I guess that's what the whole "invest more conservatively as you get older" thing is supposed to help with?

Proper noun examples

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Conservatively, 90% of today's deployments of NetworkManager exist because no one can figure out how to set up wireless without it, and we put up with its crap because wicd is waiting for us at the other end.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use conservatively in a sentence?

In C and C++ you can conservatively eliminate unused code for statically linked libraries using --gc-sections and -fdata-sections.

What does conservatively mean?

In a conservative manner.

What part of speech is conservatively?

conservatively is commonly used as adverb.