caveat
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The caveat is if you delay claiming Medicare and Social Security benefits and are still working, you may be able to continue contributing until you must enroll.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
“Sing for your supper and you’ll get breakfast, songbirds always eat,” the lyrics go, before offering a crucial caveat: “If their song is sweet to hear.”
From Salon • May 15, 2026
There is a caveat: vessels will be expected to use what Aragchi called "the co-ordinated route as already announced by the Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Republic of Iran".
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
One big caveat from the IMF team: Consumers still wear the scars from the last two crises, making them much more sensitive to any new price increases.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
This latter caveat rewidened the gap that the earlier statement had seemed to close.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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