wariness

Example Sentences

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Individual investors’ increasing wariness toward risk was particularly evident on Wednesday, the J.P.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

When it was announced, there was wariness about how the comedy sketch show would translate for a British audience.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

However, associates have said his wariness over the direction of CBS News under Weiss made his decision easier.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

It also represents wariness on the part of moderates toward the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party’s conservative religious vision for the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

But it was not hostility, exactly; merely a kind of wariness, a momentary stiffening, as at the passing of some unfamiliar animal.

From "1984" by George Orwell