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1 Ryan was far less optimistic about either Powell or McKnight playing, saying, cagily, “I have a feeling on it, but I’m not necessarily going to share it with you.”

2 Alison Mosshart inhabits the role of a lead singer cagily, at once beckoning and rebuffing affection; her fellow vocalist Jack White does the same thing, with ruddier results.

3 He cagily agreed that it was, apparently eager to put more pressure on his opponent.

4 Moment after moment in this 1816 work captivated me: filigreed melodies that hint of Italian opera, brilliantly rippling passagework, feisty bursts that interrupt a cagily gracious rondo.

5 “Of all the catfish I’ve confronted, there was only one I didn’t tell I was coming,” Schulman said cagily, apparently shocked by my plan to go unannounced.

6 Photograph: Nick Jackson/Rex Shutterstock The game is being played more cagily in Utah.

7 The setup was a trap — the true goal was to have the actor blunder into getting “shot” in the head — but Mr. Pascal cagily escaped with his life intact.

8 Sending in the rocket scout, he had sprung the Solar Guard trap and had cagily scanned the belt for another ship.

9 The more that Jan learns about it, the more cagily she studies her surroundings.

10 On Saturday, the Taliban released a cagily worded statement, saying that “jihad in Afghanistan is a legal right of Afghans, because our country is under the U.S. occupation,” yet “political efforts are also underway.”

11 With the kids gathered, some wearing festive blue or red Christmas hats, Sliepora cagily asked if they wanted to meet someone.

12 They are the work of an outfit called StopTheCyborgs.org, a group of scientists and engineers who have articulated a critique of Google Glass that steers cagily away from the half-baked nonsense of Counterforce.

13 “We have an idea of what they are doing,” he said, cagily.

14 Asked if he was feeling all right, Corden cagily said: “About what? What do you mean?”

15 Mia is transformed from a cagey lone wolf into a woman with unlimited intense sympathy for another.

16 a cagey old politician who is exceptionally skilled at getting federal money for his district

17 Once she identified herself as the Gerber baby — and as the mother of four to boot — Ms. Cook left herself open to a question that she had to answer cagily.

18 Ask the leaders of any of those bids — and we do, almost daily — and they answer cagily.

19 Paired in a final round for the 10th time since 1997, they cagily stalked each other in the early going, spurred on by an exuberant gallery tilted slightly in Mickelson's favor.

20 “You say I’ve not been a good husband and a father,” my father said cagily.

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