an abundance of caution

abundance | American Dictionary

abundance
noun[ C/U ]
us/əˈbʌn·dəns/
an amount that is more than enough:
[ C ]We all seem to have an abundance of those plastic grocery bags.
[ U ]Grapes and olives grow in abundance in the valley.
[ C ] chemistry
the level of a particular element in the outer layer of the earth

Examples of abundance

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Of these, only surface soil temperatures had a significant negative relationship with crab abundance.
Love with its treasures also tends to delight others in abundance.
The vertical line denotes the relative abundance of vertebrate remains in the various depositional environments.
The number of visits is given according to the abundance of trees, infested trees and mistletoes.
Quantitative trapping data are newly available that allow a study of abundance relations in tropical communities.
Impact of forest fragmentation on seedling i abundance in a tropical rainforest.
That is, the negative effect of resource abundance on genuine saving is reduced as corruption is reduced.
Within agriculture, persistent labor abundance has favored annual crops, which are relatively labor intensive, and vegetables in particular.
Proportional relationships may (or may not) occur when both populations grow exponentially until they reach their maximum abundance.
In addition, each species pair exhibits positive co-occurrence and positively correlated abundances.
Experiments that more closely simulate the diversity, distribution and abundance of seeds in the environment may lead to more realistic conclusions.
Ghosts may seem to elude serious scholars except as metaphor or atmosphere, but there is a surprising abundance of books about them.
When sampled with a kick net, the only organisms found in significant abundance at this marine foraging site were amphipods.
Furthermore, scarcity value can still attract consumption in the teeth of such abundance since many reissues are published in limited editions.
As a first step to identify gross differences in chemistry in the three suites, we have compared simple elemental abundances.
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Collocations withabundance

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abundance of caution
Out of an abundanceofcaution, let us revisit the charge of vitiating legislative authority.
abundance of wildlife
Of course there is an abundance of wildlife in the oceans of the world.
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