cautionary
Example Sentences
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Still, we keep seeing agent disasters that serve as cautionary tales.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
She feels Didion’s novel urges women to reconnect with themselves, using protagonist Maria as a cautionary tale.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
Such cautionary fantasies attach relationship failures to supernatural forces.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
The bestselling memoir has become a cautionary tale of financial naiveté.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Whatever cautionary value the tale may have had was thus lost, and now here she was, in a hayloft with a pirate, and rather pleased about it, too.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing cautionary
ACT Reading Test: Words to Capture Tone, List 4
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Tone and Point of View, List 3
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World Without Fish
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