skittish
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The Carrillo-Wicks bill is meant to push developers who are interested in off-site construction but skittish about its financial viability.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
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
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
ABC as a broadcast network is held to higher standard than it's streaming partner Hulu due to oversight by the federal regulator and advertisers, who may be skittish when it comes to racy programming.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
As is, she is shy and skittish, possibly because she never leaves the hive, but spends her days confined in darkness, a kind of eternal night, perpetually in labor.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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