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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abandon prudence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where one decides to disregard caution or careful judgment in favor of taking risks or acting impulsively.
Example: "In the heat of the moment, he chose to abandon prudence and make a decision that would change his life forever."
Alternatives: "discard caution" or "forsake carefulness".
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Mr. Hale cautioned, however, that investors shouldn't abandon prudence for the sake of environmental purity.
Did the "me" generation born in the 1970s abandon prudence in favour of consumerism?
Those claims to prudence and responsibility sound risibly hollow now alarm bells are blaring about the future of our public finances - and now that he's proposing to abandon prudence and borrow our way out of debt.
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Even Gordon Brown had abandoned prudence after the 2005 elections.
Taxes will therefore have to go up again, though not until after next year's election.If the extra money had been well spent, Mr Brown could be forgiven for abandoning prudence.
Labour abandoned Prudence a long time ago but today the shadow chancellor attacked her succesor Tina.
Unfortunately, with the administration having abandoned fiscal prudence for the past six years, it's practically inevitable that inequality will worsen.
Tory and Labour governments are equally guilty of abandoning common prudence when a weapons system builder flies the union flag.
Call in the heads of Citibank and Goldman Sachs and Bank of America and detail how they abandoned all prudence in pursuit of millions in private profits.
I am confident that guild standards and competition will suffice to restore prudence in this case as well as in many others where prudence was abandoned in the just-concluded age of greed run amok.
The household gods have abandoned us to the gods of juris- prudence and suburban sprawl.
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