skittish

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The memory market is traditionally cyclical, which is why some on Wall Street are skittish even in the face of sky-high prices for dynamic random-access memory and NAND.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

ABC as a broadcast network is held to higher standard than it's streaming partner Hulu due to oversight by the federal regulator and advertisers, who may be skittish when it comes to racy programming.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Equity investors have grown increasingly skittish about AI’s impact on companies once seen as beneficiaries of the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 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

The three butterflies, two of them too skittish to sit next to the windows facing the steep drop just inches from the slippery road.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez