1. he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution
2. an insurance policy is a good safeguard
3. we let our guard down
1. "Precaution is better than cure."
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Quote by Edward Coke
2. "Precaution is better than a cure."
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Quote by Edward Coke
3. "To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
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Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
4. "operate your day-to-day business as if bad times are always here, which is a great precaution."
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Donald J. Trump, Midas Touch
5. "As a precaution, Ruth had also gnawed over the worst possibilities—brain tumor, Alzheimer’s, stroke—believing this would ensure that it was not these things. History had always proven that she worried for nothing."
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Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
6. "Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution."
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Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
7. "It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise."
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Elizabeth Peters, The Snake
8. "As there was no further precaution possible I enjoyed the extraordinary magnificence of the storm with a free mind . . . and all the wonderful and terrible things that happen in high places ."
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Georgina Howell, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert
9. "They placed the board between them on the kitchen table, and Becca took the suddenly inspired precaution of sprinkling the planchette with holy water taken from a bottle in the pantry placed next to the vanilla extract."
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Michael McDowell, The Amulet
10. "The British habit of taking quinine as a prophylactic precaution against malaria developed into the evening gin and tonic—the gin being considered necessary to make the bitter-tasting quinine in the tonic water palatable."
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Penny Le Couteur, Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History