cagey
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In sensitive stories like this, journalists tend to be cagey.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Companies that build bot-detection tools are cagey about revealing exactly what triggers a captcha, worried that explaining the rules would help attackers get around them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
But they were pretty cagey against Nottingham Forest last week in the Premier League.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
It verifies Gloria’s singing talent and proves a perfect match for her showy, cagey persona: the love child of Marlene Dietrich and Sally Bowles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
His dad would be home soon, and so would those cagey girls who managed somehow to have all the fun and leave him and their mother with all the work.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
With what's at stake, though, it might be a little cagier than that.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Judge was cagier about his contract talks with the Yankees.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
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
The athletes, less forthright about their body-image issues, were cagier about their usage.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2020
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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