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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Threats & warnings
advance warning
alarm
alarm bell
bell-ringing
beware the ides of Marchidiom
bow
brushback pitch
burglar alarm
cautionary
cautionary tale
don't you dareidiom
early warning system
hear warning bellsidiom
minatory
one swallow doesn't make a summeridiom
protection racket
red alert
red flag
scare quotes
yellow card

caveat | American Dictionary

caveat
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkæv·iˌæt, ˈkɑ·viˌɑt/
a warning, for example about the use or effectiveness of something:
One caveat: Know when passengers must be back on board the plane.

caveat | Business English

caveat
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkæviæt/us
a warning to consider something before doing anything more:
One caveat: while the plans can offer an opportunity to accumulate significant wealth over time, they cannot guarantee the safety of employee contributions.
a statement that limits a more general statement:
Behind every set of statistics there's always a caveat.

Examples of caveat

caveat
The introduction sets out the background and methodology of the research and repeats some of the important caveats about qualitative attitude research.
We will review herein some of the evidence and the caveats surrounding the neurodevelopmental hypothesis.
Unlike natural kind terms, the reference of colour terms is determined by observation, with the caveat that this be under normal conditions.
Bearing this caveat in mind, the computed results are compared here to the available, unconditioned fluctuation statistics that have been measured.
Another caveat is the question of the safety of life during relativistic future-directed time travel.
That was when there weren't so many caveats as in our earlier statements.
Even with this caveat, the play's final scene went a long way towards extracting an ethical response from the audience.
There is a caveat to this conclusion, however, since the long-term effects of institutions are not directly estimated through the pooled time-series design.
There are, of course, caveats to be made here: not everything is possible through these two mechanisms.
But these are minor caveats when the writing is as good as this: the reach so wide, the thought so intense, the prose so vivid.
It is one thing to give customers what they want under a caveat emptor condition.
The caveat that there is no "typical" murmur of a ventricular septal defect must be noted.
However, it is equally plausible that - qualifications and caveats aside - square objects are disposed to look square.
A few preliminary caveats must be made at the outset.
Before we turn to the experimental results, a caveat is in order concerning their interpretation and in particular about cross-linguistic comparability.
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