reticent

Example Sentences

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However, it could be much more reticent about prospects for future rate cuts given high energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

And increasingly, many young New Zealanders are making more permanent moves, reticent to come back to a country they feel no longer offers a prosperous future for them.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Disney’s struggles with succession over the decades have become epic dramas filled with false starts, larger-than-life leaders reticent to go and allegations of hollow searches for a new CEO.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

BCA’s Marko Papic isn’t reticent with his opinions and rarely sits on the fence.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 13, 2026

Anybody meeting him there for the first time might have thought him reticent.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy