caveat
a warning or caution; admonition.
Law. a legal notice to a court or public officer to suspend a certain proceeding until the notifier is given a hearing: a caveat filed against the probate of a will.
Origin of caveat
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How to use super-resolution and improve onsite image quality | Kristin Tynski | September 1, 2020 | Search Engine WatchWith the caveat that this is highly biased promotional material, Xaiomi's new camera looks darn near invisible in all but one shot of the video.
Xiaomi’s “third-generation” under-display camera looks nearly invisible | Ron Amadeo | August 28, 2020 | Ars TechnicaThe latest warning comes from Bank of America—with some caveats.
Big Tech is driving the markets rally. There are fresh doubts that trade will hold up | Bernhard Warner | August 26, 2020 | FortuneMany people offered takes with caveats about how it all depends on the baby, or the employer, or your partner.
An important caveat to these explanations, however, is that they often aren’t based on very much hard data.
The one caveat: Asprey advises only buying butter made from grass-fed or pastured cows.
Bulletproof Coffee and the Case for Butter as a Health Food | DailyBurn | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTExperts we spoke with said this is a glaring caveat that makes it difficult to create a national estimate from the results.
Hulagu then gave his men licence to rape, kill and plunder with the caveat that Christians and Jews were to be spared.
In Threatening Baghdad, Militants Seek to Undo 800 Years of History | Justin Marozzi | August 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInstead, MacMillan has the temerity to issue a caveat mid-thrust.
‘Halt and Catch Fire’ and AMC’s Push to Reset Dramas | Andrew Romano | May 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut then, just when we feared that the Cox we suspected we knew was about to get too schmaltzy, too idyllic, she adds a caveat.
Courteney Cox Gets Personal About Her Directorial Debut, ‘Just Before I Go’ | Kevin Fallon | April 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet a caveat is needed, for the intense interest we take in the characters of a novel like The Nabob scarcely suggests strolling.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetIn the meanwhile it should hardly be necessary to enter a caveat against the popular idea that we are now “in broad daylight”.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyThis caveat duly lodged, he descended to the deck of his sloop, where he found the cabin boy shaking as with an ague.
Duffels | Edward EgglestonBesides the work your correspondent mentions, he wrote a book, entitled a caveat against Seducers.
Meanwhile you trust at your peril, caveat emptor, your eyes are your market, or words to similar effect.
The Cab of the Sleeping Horse | John Reed Scott
British Dictionary definitions for caveat
/ (ˈkeɪvɪˌæt, ˈkæv-) /
law a formal notice requesting the court or officer to refrain from taking some specified action without giving prior notice to the person lodging the caveat
a warning; caution
Origin of caveat
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