cagey
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In truth, I found this a bit cagey.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 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
Big companies have been exceedingly cagey about how they’re going to spend the refunded money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
It was evident from her cagey behavior that, whatever the topic, this conversation would not end well.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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
Great Britain 3-4 Japan A match that’s cagier than London Zoo edges towards its conclusion.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2018
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
Why, even old Tom, the father, is, for all his seeming of pompous emptiness, the craftiest and cagiest old chap in the National Union Club.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
