on one's guard
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“Nature here is so strong that one has to be on one’s guard to not be absorbed by it,” wrote Dodge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
It has sniffed at such examples as "directives" for orders, "alerted" for being put on one's guard, "dis-O.K." for withdrawing approval, "deactivate" for abolishing.
From Time Magazine Archive
One should be on one's guard, however, against accepting readily any motive assigned.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer
It is imperative to be on one's guard against any similar experience again,—that being the only benefit that can come from disasters.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Herbert Baldwin Foster
The details of the two wars meet at many points; only one must be on one's guard against merely fanciful, merely external resemblances.
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
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