cagey
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There are worries about having a more cagey Fed, but there are also experts who support having less Fed talk when there isn’t a crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
Food professionals from haute cuisine down to trend-savvy sandwich shops tend to be cagey about where they get their ramps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
A second US official was cagey when asked about whether an extension was likely to be agreed on Trump's trip.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Forest got in the goals last time out too, scoring four against Burnley, but this game feels like it will be far tighter and quite cagey.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Ernest Burkhart remained cagey about the role of his brother Bryan, evidently not wanting to implicate him.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
With what's at stake, though, it might be a little cagier than that.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Clowes himself is cagier about how to interpret “Monica” — and in particular its startling ending, which Aster described as a “gut punch.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Judge was cagier about his contract talks with the Yankees.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
The answer here was cagier, and I was asked not to quote it directly.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2021
Great Britain 3-4 Japan A match that’s cagier than London Zoo edges towards its conclusion.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2018
Few can parry like Bacon — and he was at his cagiest about his work, speaking abstractly of the importance of “chance” and “accident.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2021
Yet here she was, about to match wits with some of the cleverest and cagiest card players in the world.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2020
Though I had expected Johns to be guarded about his past or his personal life, it was a surprise to find him cagiest about his artistic process.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2019
One of the finest, cagiest and laziest painters is Andr� Derain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, even old Tom, the father, is, for all his seeming of pompous emptiness, the craftiest and cagiest old chap in the National Union Club.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
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