caveat
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There is an obvious caveat to Sinner’s numbers.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
“Sing for your supper and you’ll get breakfast, songbirds always eat,” the lyrics go, before offering a crucial caveat: “If their song is sweet to hear.”
From Salon • May 15, 2026
Once on the ballot, an initiative would need a simple majority vote to pass—but with a caveat because of the opposing campaigns.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
That logic still applies, he added, but with one important caveat: tariff-driven inflation is already running high, and an energy shock risks pushing prices in other categories higher.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
This latter caveat rewidened the gap that the earlier statement had seemed to close.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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