caveat
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“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
And he didn’t caveat it with ‘crime novelist’ or genre.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
His father says Zach was outstanding, with one caveat.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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