skittish

Example Sentences

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Banks may be damned by skittish investors if they do engage with private credit, and damned if they don’t.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

"Markets can look skittish or confused, but what they're really doing is managing event risk in real time, with oil sitting right at the centre of that."

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The memory market is traditionally cyclical, which is why some on Wall Street are skittish even in the face of sky-high prices for dynamic random-access memory and NAND.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

One concern for SAP is that would-be customers have become a little more skittish in an uncertain geopolitical environment.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Katherine is skittish as all get out, and I have to remind myself repeatedly that she ain’t used to creeping around in the dark like I am.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland