cautiously

adverb

Definition of cautiouslynext
as in deliberately

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Recent Examples of cautiously Barcelona is approaching the complex transfer cautiously, expecting Rodri to demonstrate a strong desire to move. — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Space Exploration Technologies posted its first quarterly report since going public, leaving analysts cautiously optimistic on the stock even as spending concerns sent shares lower. — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 Netflix is also cautiously considering a free streaming product. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026 After two years in the political wilderness, Democrats are feeling cautiously optimistic about turning the tide in the midterms. — Sam Gringlas, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026 The audience gives him a standing ovation, and Bergé appears cautiously relieved. — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026 Sill noted that her team was cautiously optimistic about placing the dog with a foster family, as the dog was almost immediately lost. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026 When Schwartz was nominated in April, public health experts were cautiously optimistic, citing her background. — CBS News, 30 July 2026 Retiree Jenny Edge is among those in Rochdale’s town center to cautiously welcome the proposals. — Katie Marie Davies, Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cautiously
  1. deliberately
  2. carefully
  3. slowly
Adverb
  • Roughly 7 in 10 people globally believe government officials, business leaders and journalists are deliberately misleading them.
    — Jamie Gutfreund, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • After the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed began more deliberately guiding the market to near certainty on the trajectory of rates heading into its meetings.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of deliberately
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  • After securing Swift in its grasp, LINK will carefully fire its three ion thrusters, aiming to boost the observatory back to its original orbit over the course of two to three months.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The Voyagers have been skirting this dismal fate for years now, with NASA engineers carefully monitoring each spacecraft’s power supplies and plotting out when to turn off individual instruments to keep the missions going as long as possible.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of carefully
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  • Storms stretched from the Plains to Ohio early Friday morning and will slowly start to sink south and ease up by the afternoon.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Gordon Road Stand, the oldest in the EFL and barely 30 yards wide, was still standing, albeit slowly rotting away after being closed in the wake of the Bradford City fire disaster that claimed 56 lives in 1985.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of slowly

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