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
One caveat worth tracking: The regulatory environment is not settled.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 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
There is a caveat: vessels will be expected to use what Aragchi called "the co-ordinated route as already announced by the Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Republic of Iran".
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
A caveat must be mentioned immediately: while there is no doubt about the antiquity of food production in Eurasia, there is controversy about its onset in the Americas.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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