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caution

1. Law chiefly Brit a formal warning given to a person suspected or accused of an offence that his words will be taken down and may be used in evidence

2. a notice entered on the register of title to land that prevents a proprietor from disposing of his land without a notice to the person who entered the caution

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In the name of speed, we throw caution to the winds and forget sentence patterning, paragraphing and other conventions that make messages intelligible, creating unattractive and impenetrable data dumps.

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I decided to throw caution to the winds, and cut to the political chase with my kid - bypassing Washington chopping down the cherry tree, Lincoln freeing the slaves, or any of that textbook stuff my generation had to learn before we grew up and got to the good stuff in the newspapers.

KID'S LESSON ON PARTY POLITICS GOES DOWN EASY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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