conservative
We're conservatively anticipating savings of approximately $25 million over the next six years.
The cost was conservatively estimated at $21.2 billion.
We estimate conservatively that 5 to 7 percent of students are academically gifted.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cautious and vigilant
abundance
an abundance of cautionidiom
askance
attentive
attentively
diligent
diligent about something/doing something
discreet
due diligence
gingerly
meticulousness
mindful
minutely
narrowly
once
semi-conservative
slowly
snuffly
super-cautious
super-conservative

Examples of conservatively

conservatively
So, the religion-as-fiction hypothesis is better in terms of its likelihood and, conservatively, at least as good in terms of its probability.
In addition, policymakers should act conservatively on proposals for rapid land development in the mangroves, including road construction.
Thus, for three of the four corpora considered, the corrected scaling factors more conservatively estimate frequency.
It coursed from the left anterior descending coronary artery to the right ventricle, and was subsequenlty managed conservatively.
It was decided to manage the patient conservatively, and only to intervene if evidence of myocardial ischaemia developed, hopefully recognized prior to infarction.
So-called trace approximation is demonstrated for both type systems, meaning that trace effects conservatively approximate run-time trace behavior.
Negative margin status improves local control in conservatively managed breast cancer patients.
Results obtained by the test kits are therefore treated conservatively when comparing them to environmental criteria.
Because they are proceeding conservatively, learners never produce forms such as (47) : 47.
It was conservatively assumed that these fractures were associated with costs only during the first year after fracture.
First, we conservatively assume that all the values from the input type may be passed to the filter.
The larger orifice was mild/ moderately incompetent and was conservatively repaired as above.
Conservatively, we chose a slightly more stringent criterion to define stable patients-those experiencing a change of 10 points or fewer.
It is shown that observational equivalence in this language conservatively extends observational equivalence in its assignment-free functional sublanguage.
However, some liveness properties may be conservatively approximated.
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