How to Use caveat in a Sentence

caveat

noun
  • His investment advice comes with a caveat: that the stock market is impossible to predict with absolute accuracy.
  • But there’s an important caveat that suggests the temp is not so extreme.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2022
  • And of course, the caveat that capitalism is bad — this is very exciting news!
    oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2022
  • These estimates come with some caveats but give a general picture.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The only caveat is that the last 75 feet are steep enough that a wheelchair would need assistance.
    Chris Van Leuven, Outside Online, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Scott included a caveat of sorts, arguably leaving the door open to those within their party who could cast doubt on vote counts.
    Byrick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • This leads to musings on Phoenix's untimely death at age 23 from an overdose with a bizarre caveat.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The caveat is that people should pay attention to coronavirus transmission rates.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • There’s only one caveat: the luxury establishment does not employ any staff.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Still, raising an anchor is always welcome news, and talk of its booming beer business would, at last, no longer need the wine-and-spirits caveat.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The win is a huge shot in the arm for the Bengals, but comes with a huge caveat — the Panthers were truly terrible on Sunday.
    Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The caveat, Sokol says, is that people who are allergic to many things may still experience symptoms, since the pills are specific to dust or grass.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The caveat exists because the frame rates take a severe hit at the P16’s native 4K resolution.
    PCMAG, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The caveat to the promising data is that it was conducted in healthy adults, not those experiencing an anaphylactic reaction.
    Natallie Rocha, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Check the warranty Mattress purchases often come with a warranty—some spanning your lifetime—but those guarantees often come with caveats.
    Renee Cherry, SELF, 10 Oct. 2024
  • One caveat: To achieve that level of air purification, the NeverChange must be at its highest setting, which is to say its loudest setting.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But caveats aside, the boldness of the move still stands.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • The caveat: Those games had to be shown on over-the-air TV.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Cymbal got the thumbs up to move the tree, with one caveat.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
  • One caveat: The press box might be too far from the surface.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2019
  • There is a caveat to the timeline, though, Mullen said.
    Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 21 Apr. 2018
  • So that's the one caveat that just still gives me the hee bee jeebies.
    Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The clients let Kenza run with the decor, with one caveat: no beige.
    Alyssa Bird, ELLE Decor, 18 May 2022
  • There is a caveat to this, which is the old physics debate.
    Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Of course, like all things that have to do with Uber, there’s a huge caveat here.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 29 Dec. 2018
  • The caveat, of course, is that Santa's many helpers need to be kept safe.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2020
  • But there is a climate caveat with the WMO’s good news.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Exercise comes in for many of the same hedges and caveats.
    Markham Heid, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
  • But there’s a caveat: A child born to each Bridge man will fall back in time.
    Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
  • But the caveat here is that split is more balanced than last year.
    Johana Bhuiyan, Recode, 25 Apr. 2018

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