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How to use the word prudent in a Sentence?

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It is prudent to avoid foolishness, but unwise to lack wisdom.

– Christen Kuikoua

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2 months ago

I don’t think people should panic, but it’s just prudent to have insured deposits versus uninsured deposits.

– Jay Hatfield

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We felt it prudent that we not allow events to continue and risk a repetition or repeat of what happened Sunday, we need to ensure that folks going out to see a concert in Rochester are safe and feel safe.

– Rochester Police Chief David Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mark Tritton must deliver improved results, top-tier execution, careful management of costs, greater supply chain reliability, prudent capital spending, a stronger balance sheet, and robust digital capabilities will all be important to Mark Tritton success.

– Sue Grove

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Postal Service is fully committed to the inclusion of electric vehicles as a significant part of our delivery fleet even though the investment will cost more than an internal combustion engine vehicle. The Postal Service said, as we have stated repeatedly, we must make fiscally prudent decisions in the needed introduction of a new vehicle fleet, we will continue to look for opportunities to increase the electrification of our delivery fleet in a responsible manner, consistent with our operating strategy, the deployment of appropriate infrastructure, and our financial condition, which we expect to continue to improve as we pursue our plan.

– Kim Frum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Elon Musk'll be hiring people that understand Elon Musk vision, understand the kind of work, product and culture Elon Musk's trying to create, there's no question that this is going to be a 180-degree culture shift. Tesla is known as being a very hard culture, pretty demanding of people, [ while ] Twitter was kind of seen as a little bit of a softer culture, a little more thoughtful about people and obviously was very attentive to a lot of social issues. ... I think Elon Musk is going to be very prudent to make sure Elon Musk sorts out the talent who Elon Musk thinks can help Elon Musk carry Elon Musk mission forward.

– Daniel Newman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's much, much more reasonable to give rebates to the lowest-income taxpayers, but eliminating or temporarily suspending gas taxes is not a prudent tax policy.

– Lucy Dadayan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Taking into consideration the scale of the sanctions, I do not see any prudent way for Russia to stop this military operation unless the military and political purposes are realized, because from the Russian perspective, the West has already exhausted the potential to influence Russia. There is nothing more that the West can do..

– Dmitry Suslov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This was an extremely difficult decision but a prudent one given the current business environment and recent developments with our parent company, Genting Hong Kong.

– Jack Anderson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The City Attorney's Office will vigorously defend this prudent approach ensuring public health and safety.

– City Attorney Jim Rowader

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It may be the case that in some school districts, where things are so raging right now in terms of Omicron for the next couple of weeks, and it may be prudent to delay things a couple more weeks, it's going to be a very challenging time, people are going to have to be patient.

– Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you are vaccinated, and particularly if you are boosted, you're going to have to wear a mask on the plane anyway. That's a regulation. But be prudent and careful. When you go to the airport, particularly, that's an indoor congregate setting, i believe that if people follow the recommendations of the CDC about indoor masking, take the advice of getting vaccinated and getting boosted, we should be fine for the holidays, and we should enjoy it with our family and our friends.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The federal government has no right to tell parents that in order for their kids to attend school in person, they must be forced to wear a mask all day, every day, many Florida schoolchildren have suffered under forced masking policies, and it is prudent to protect the ability of parents to make decisions regarding the wearing of masks by their children.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Centner Academy's policy was enacted as a prudent precautionary measure after much thoughtful deliberation, to be clear, the school leadership does not believe that one who is vaccinated can infect another person with COVID. Further, the school is not opining on whether a vaccinated person can negatively impact others.

– Centner Academy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In recent years, this company did not operate and manage itself well. It failed to conduct prudent operations according to changing market conditions, and it blindly diversified and expanded its business.

– Zou Lan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

– Demosthenes

added by Normando
2 years ago

Protection is the prudent and responsible thing to do.

– John Kirby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

OPEC + would be prudent to tap into its vast spare capacity and bring stability to the oil market.

– Matt Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t think it’s going to be perfect, but again, I think it was a prudent move on the tour’s part to try to appease some people that were getting their heads turned by other things.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you don't get these hotspots under control outside the Krishna Udayakumar, they're going to come back, likely with new, dangerous strains that may undermine our vaccines, it's both prudent to do it and ethical to do it.

– Krishna Udayakumar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I do think that the prudent thing to do, is to try to get a jury seated here in Jefferson County and if we discover that we can not, then we will move the case to another county.

– Judge Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Banks were conservative and they made provisions for their loans. Banks have been prudent.

– Patrick Njoroge

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The current system appears to be faltering at multiple levels so I do think having more distributors involved is prudent, it will be important however to maintain central coordination.

– Amesh Adalja

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We all know that just because he showed up ... doesn’t necessarily explain what is going on. all of this has put us in a state of mind where Alibaba is not a prudent investment for us going forward.

– William Huston

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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