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And, as the Dodgers clearly believe given their conservativeness amid this week’s flurry of winter meeting activity, being willing to not keep spending at levels even their deep-pocketed ownership group might be unwilling to stomach.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022

Has the conservativeness of the multiplex business surprised him?

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2021

“Knowing the basic conservativeness of this body, I think it will be a blending of the two is my best guess,” he said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 16, 2016

Unfortunately, he now met yet another formidable impediment to acceptance: the conservativeness of his fellow scientists.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

It had nothing of the volume and conservativeness which belonged to it in Germany.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell