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caveat

[kav-ee-aht, -at, kah-vee-, key-] / ˈkæv iˌɑt, -ˌæt, ˈkɑ vi-, keɪ- /


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The caveat is that those holdings aren’t easy to monetize; many activist investors have tried and failed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Yes, that appears actually to be a caveat of the proposed new system.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 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

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

Our other caveat concerns the limits that locally available wild species set on the rise of food production.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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