skittish

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The Carrillo-Wicks bill is meant to push developers who are interested in off-site construction but skittish about its financial viability.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

One concern for SAP is that would-be customers have become a little more skittish in an uncertain geopolitical environment.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Tech firms’ ambitious plans for blowout spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure had already been making some investors skittish over the past couple of months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

All those factors have made many investors skittish about exposure to the nation.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

The one we’d lost was impressive enough, though I’d seen it opened only once, at night, by the skittish orange firelight of the burning home for peculiar children.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs