leery
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Parks, who later served on the City Council, said he was leery of any arrangements that left the department indebted — even if only in appearance — to rich donors.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Related: ‘My husband is leery of my plan’: We are both 60 and have $5 million.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
A friend who is leery about cruising texted me a link the second news broke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
“I would be a little leery of supposing that it’s a gaming of the system in order to get some unfair advantage,” Vaughn said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
I trusted my new papa immediately, but I was leery of the younger men.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
Indeed, a raft of recent surveys, such as this one from UBS UBS AG, show the Great Recession scared generation born after 1980 is actually more risk averse and leerier of stocks than their elders.
From Forbes ● Dec. 19, 2014
Americans have grown leerier of foreign entanglements and more self-interested on economic matters.
From Economist ● Oct. 10, 2013
Physicians are leerier about another of Kessler's campaigns: restricting the promotion of drugs for purposes other than those explicitly approved by the FDA.
From Time Magazine Archive
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