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be gingerly
adjective
Very careful or cautious.
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Made of clear plastic, anchored by black elastic cords or flexible geodesic networks of cables, they can often be (gingerly) inhabited — walked through, sat in or lain on.
The issue was effectively, and rightly, parked during the Hillsborough inquest that belatedly delivered delayed justice to those who lost loved ones in the disaster but the debate now appears to be gingerly moving on.
If committed reformers turn out to have done well in Friday's election which at this point is very far from certain the unthinkable will start to be thought about, may also be talked about, and, just possibly, may be gingerly acted upon.
A half-repentant Labour party may be gingerly moving towards this position; the Tories remain much where they ever were; and the Liberal Democrats, long ignorant of anything to do with the nitty-gritty of the economy, do not seem to have a position one way or the other.
Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, likened the central bank's stimulus efforts to "a monetary Gordian Knot" -- a complex tangle of programs that must be "gingerly" unwound to avoid havoc in financial markets.
Each of its bases and outposts is a spiderweb of dynamic guard behaviours that must be gingerly unpicked, and the world map has a whiff of Bloodborne's deranged hydra-headed design to it, with valleys forcing you to approach bases from certain broad directions.
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But amid the euphoria, some questions are gingerly being raised.
His few gestures toward the postmodern have been gingerly.
Sandy is gingerly in alluding to this subject.
Cornerback Will Allen has been gingerly testing his surgically repaired foot.
While I am gingerly, clumsily backing off, there is no smooth transition in sight.
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