How to Use circumspect in a Sentence

circumspect

adjective

• Fadness said the city wants to be circumspect to get the right fit of companies.
  — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2018
• Main Street is rightly more circumspect about the Fed’s largess.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• Asked about the search and interview process for the job, Garrett was more circumspect.
  — Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• But even those more circumspect about work-from-home see a change coming.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2020
• Asked what caused the sudden about face after two years of deal talk, the ICE exec was circumspect.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 20 June 2023
• The state party chairman, Ben Wikler, was circumspect about Democrats' plans for the race.
  — Todd Richmond, ajc, 7 May 2022
• Still there are those who are a little more circumspect in their assessment of the city.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Your boyfriend seems to have been honest, though circumspect.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2017
• Alario was more circumspect about what the Senate might do with health care services.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 19 May 2017
• Stay as gentle and circumspect as this slow loris is while eating a rice ball.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 21 Mar. 2020
• The statement came on the heels of a circumspect response about Prince Harry's much-talked-about memoir, Spare.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 30 Jan. 2023
• But she was sternly advised to be more circumspect in the future or her job would be at stake.
  — Rachael Herron, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
• There's a lot of people who are looking at their careers in health care in a very circumspect sort of way right now, too.
  — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 11 Oct. 2021
• Most of them are very circumspect and have people that advise them.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2022
• Abraham Lincoln, who’d been more circumspect on the issue, was seen as a safer choice.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• Members of the Town Council, meanwhile, are circumspect about what will come next.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• And the people closest to her have been circumspect in their efforts on her behalf.
  — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• Even Porsche is somewhat circumspect about the whole concept.
  — Jim Resnick, Car and Driver, 20 Oct. 2017
• Consequently, Pani, who was not part of the team, is circumspect.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2022
• If, at times, the speakers were a little circumspect about telling people to carry a weapon, there was a reason.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
• But when asked whether minds and hearts are changing in C-Suites for anti-racist work in the world, Schulman’s answer was circumspect.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 29 June 2021
• Yet this one, too, has a serious and circumspect artist at its center.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
• England has been much more circumspect, with 12 crosses and 8 shots.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• John Jumper, the DeepMind senior researcher who leads that team, is circumspect about what exactly the team is up to next.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 July 2022
• But Johnson was even more circumspect when pressed about the status of Santos and efforts to expel him.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
• His letters could be chatty about fly-fishing, but were circumspect to the point of muteness on questions of love and art.
  — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
• When asked what has him most excited and most concerned about his team, Sendek was circumspect.
  — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• And the Israeli government has good reason right now to be circumspect.
  — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2023
• One runs hot, brilliant, amoral, and insatiable; the other, deliberate and circumspect, cold and damp as some eyeless cave creature.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024
• Some key modules that control and integrate brain activity are less circumspect than others in their doings.
  — Max Bertolero, Scientific American, 1 July 2019

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024