cagey
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Food professionals from haute cuisine down to trend-savvy sandwich shops tend to be cagey about where they get their ramps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
A second US official was cagey when asked about whether an extension was likely to be agreed on Trump's trip.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Prior to that announcement, though, Weisz is cagey about the film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
It was the same this time, a fabulous Mouat double-takeout edging GB 5-4 ahead at that stage after a cagey opening half during which he and 2014 gold-medallist Brad Jacobs traded points.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
I might have been slight—but I was smart and cagey.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
With what's at stake, though, it might be a little cagier than that.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Clowes himself is cagier about how to interpret “Monica” — and in particular its startling ending, which Aster described as a “gut punch.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
The answer here was cagier, and I was asked not to quote it directly.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2021
The athletes, less forthright about their body-image issues, were cagier about their usage.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2020
Some cagier gamblers might wait until closer to game time to bet the underdogs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
Few can parry like Bacon — and he was at his cagiest about his work, speaking abstractly of the importance of “chance” and “accident.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2021
Yet here she was, about to match wits with some of the cleverest and cagiest card players in the world.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2020
Though I had expected Johns to be guarded about his past or his personal life, it was a surprise to find him cagiest about his artistic process.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2019
She has a winsome translator, a force of loyal eunuch fighters and an adviser who happens to be the cagiest person in this entire story.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2016
Why, even old Tom, the father, is, for all his seeming of pompous emptiness, the craftiest and cagiest old chap in the National Union Club.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
