circumspect

How to use circumspect in a sentence

• Even traditionally circumspect officials made little secret Wednesday of their frustration that the two lawmakers had thrust themselves into such a landscape.

  U.S. leaders move to shut down further freelance trips to Kabul | Annie Linskey, Paul Kane, Alex Horton, Tyler Pager | August 26, 2021 | Washington Post

• He remains grateful for the blockbuster year he had around 1996 and ’97 — playing “Saturday Night Live,” winning Grammys — but he’s circumspect about the ephemeral nature of fame.

  Jakob Dylan has always been part cowboy-troubadour, part rabbi | Tim Greiving | July 9, 2021 | Washington Post

• The show is more certain than ever that the status quo is untenable — and a lot less willing to be circumspect about that idea.

  How In the Heights went from a student musical to one of the summer’s biggest movies | Constance Grady | June 11, 2021 | Vox

• He said in late April that he had a “high degree of confidence” that the virus came from a Wuhan lab, contradicting an on-the-record statement from his own intelligence community which was more circumspect.

  What a proven coronavirus lab leak theory would mean | Aaron Blake | May 27, 2021 | Washington Post

• Meanwhile, some colleges that took aggressive action to combat the pandemic last year have been more circumspect about mandating vaccinations this spring.

  Most employers shy away from mandating coronavirus vaccines | Dan Diamond | May 21, 2021 | Washington Post