cautionary
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Sam Adams reviews this cautionary tale of corporate greed and explains how the story of the movie’s release came to mirror the one it was telling.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
When Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund unraveled last month, veterans on Wall Street saw it as the latest cautionary tale of hubris—another inexperienced, overconfident investor taking on too much risk with far too much leverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"What if I have completely overestimated my capabilities? What if my story ends up being a cautionary tale like Icarus about flying too close to the sun?" he writes in the book.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The woylie, or brush-tailed bettong, is a cautionary tale.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Recounted in numberless articles and books, the Maya collapse has become an ecological parable for green activists; along with Pleistocene overkill, it is a favorite cautionary tale about surpassing the limits of Nature.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing cautionary
ACT Reading Test: Words to Capture Tone, List 4
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