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caveat

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


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The research comes with the caveat that it is not conclusive on ecological consequences, and more research is needed.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

However, the caveat there is those individuals were already detained, so I had a starting point.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026

A published report that frontier artificial-intelligence lab Anthropic was profitable for a second quarter in a row contains a very important caveat.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

To Mike Kempe, CIO of audit and consulting firm Grant Thornton, the Gartner report comes as no surprise—but with one caveat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Clara had finally relented and let Molly get social media a couple of years ago, with the caveat that it was exclusively professional accounts for the theater.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Pasquariello tackles a couple of other caveats investors might cite about buying stocks here.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

"It's likely that future X-planes will be uncrewed," says Coen, before adding the vital caveats "unless the technology we're researching relates to piloting or if crewing it is more cost-effective".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

These caveats aren’t intended to dismiss the risks from AI, especially given its rapidly growing ability to train itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

With caveats aplenty, that is pretty much what happened.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Nevertheless, arbitrarily delineated stages provide a useful shorthand for discussing the diversity of music and of human societies, provided one bears in mind the above caveats.

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




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