cagey
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Ukraine is understandably cagey about how it goes about confronting this increasingly sophisticated threat, but electronic methods to disrupt the drones' connectivity are high on the list.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
In truth, I found this a bit cagey.
From Slate ● Sep. 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
Though I am too cagey to say it: he might object to the vocabulary, or think he’s being pinned down.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
The crowd - and a Grand Slam on the line - might make this a cagier affair.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2023
But others, especially those in the heavily polluting energy sector, have been cagier about their intentions or have resisted overhauling operations for the sake of planetary survival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
The answer here was cagier, and I was asked not to quote it directly.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2021
Some cagier gamblers might wait until closer to game time to bet the underdogs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
With these words, Universal sent its first trailer for Cats out into the Twitterverse – and if a cagier strapline has appeared in modern movie marketing, nothing comes immediately to mind.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2019
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
She has a winsome translator, a force of loyal eunuch fighters and an adviser who happens to be the cagiest person in this entire story.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2016
"The cagiest bat flies once too often," he said.
From The Bat by Avery Hopwood
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