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- adjective Especially or
unreasonably cautious .
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Examples
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If the account is true, Libby was indeed the "hypercautious aide" (as described by the Times); "the excruciatingly careful" man (in the words of Paul Wolfowitz); and someone who never acted a "freelancer," (as one former colleague described him to me).
Murray Waas: Exclusive: The Paradox That Is Scooter Libby 2010
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If true, Libby was no longer the hypercautious aide or someone excruciatingly careful.
Murray Waas: Exclusive: The Paradox That Is Scooter Libby 2010
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The hypercautious "NewsHour" is almost unwatchable, and we're all aware of the various political controversies PBS has had to fend off over the years.
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Djerassi blames U.S. regulators for being hypercautious.
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Between these alternatives — the hypercautious approach of encoding all e-mail and the fatalistic belief that Big Brother will see everything anyway — lay the surprise in what I heard from these informants.
Tinfoil Underwear 2006
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Between these alternatives — the hypercautious approach of encoding all e-mail and the fatalistic belief that Big Brother will see everything anyway — lay the surprise in what I heard from these informants.
Tinfoil Underwear 2006
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It was the formerly hypercautious Mr. Hayden himself "who would grab the banner and lead the charge away from liberty and toward a security state."
Signal Failure 2008
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Maybe it's just me being hypercautious something I've been called many times! but I'm always a little skeptical of online job announcements from publications that don't include a link to a website.
Magazine for International Students Seeks Submissions Erika D. 2006
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Maybe it's just me being hypercautious something I've been called many times! but I'm always a little skeptical of online job announcements from publications that don't include a link to a website.
Archive 2006-01-01 Erika D. 2006
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The piece describes Sink, currently the state Chief Financial Officer, as "a hypercautious candidate without a potent message or viable political operation."
TIME.com: Top Stories Mike Memoli 2010
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