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But the combination of foods businesses had left some investors in London-based Unilever leery of holding shares in a large publicly traded U.S. food company, analysts have said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Parks, who later served on the City Council, said he was leery of any arrangements that left the department indebted — even if only in appearance — to rich donors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Related: ‘My husband is leery of my plan’: We are both 60 and have $5 million.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

Minutes from the central bank’s December deliberations indicated officials were leery of data signaling an improvement in economic activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Hold-Your-Nose Billy clapped a leery eye on the rat-catcher's son.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

Indeed, a raft of recent surveys, such as this one from UBS UBS AG, show the Great Recession scared generation born after 1980 is actually more risk averse and leerier of stocks than their elders.

From Forbes ● Dec. 19, 2014

Americans have grown leerier of foreign entanglements and more self-interested on economic matters.

From Economist ● Oct. 10, 2013

Physicians are leerier about another of Kessler's campaigns: restricting the promotion of drugs for purposes other than those explicitly approved by the FDA.

From Time Magazine Archive