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Sasaki and the Dodgers have been coy about the change.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

The word “DeFiant” was a coy wink to this idea of decentralized currency, known as DeFi, the ostensible rationale for the new Trump–Witkoff platform.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

But Peter Ricketts, the UK's Bayeux Tapestry envoy, remained coy about the exact date the "incredibly fragile object" would arrive from its home in northern France for a major exhibition at the British Museum.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Zendaya addresses those AI-generated pictures depicting her marriage to fiancé Tom Holland while also remaining coy about whether they really tied the knot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

She was breathless and coy and blushed to excess.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Unlike his coyer colleagues, Wilson was never afraid to turn his searchlight on himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the prominent members is Yuri Barsakov, whose coyer is the Izvestia News Agency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: You have so frightened the South African government by your coyer story that they cannot make up their minds whether or not to let us read it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marking Tools.—To mark tools, first coyer the article to be marked with a thin coating of tallow or beeswax, and with a sharp instrument write the name in the tallow.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

My tell-tale tongue, in talking over bold, What they in private council did declare, To thee, in plain and public terms unrolled; And so by that made thee more coyer far.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow

But just as often, he can suggest Louella Parsons at her coyest: "Soon Sinatra will give her a white poodle which she calls 'Maf,' for she is forever teasing Sinatra about his connections."

From Time Magazine Archive

Ellen DeGeneres made the rounds of the hipper talk shows last week in what appeared to be the coyest exercise in trial ballooning since Colin Powell's book tour.

From Time Magazine Archive

To him, language is fundamentally the language of love: man wooing meaning, down to the coyest nuance, the most maidenly scruple.

From Time Magazine Archive

In exchange, the U.S. was offering only the coyest of hints about possible cutbacks in its own future programs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still deign to play the charmer, dear,   Blush while you're thinking of me, Breathe coyest wordlets in mine ear,   But don't confess you love me!

From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Frederic Lawrence Knowles