oversuspicious

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversuspicious
Adjective
  • Executive order spurs uncertain moment The executive order comes as the Cass County Historical Society is about seven months into its year-long grant.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Tshisekedi and Kagame held a surprise face-to-face meeting in Qatar on March 18, but the prospect of a peaceful resolution is still uncertain.
    Emmet Livingstone, The Dial, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Contact the company directly through official channels, avoiding the contact information from the suspicious job listing.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Weiss was fired in January 2023 after a report of suspicious computer activity at Schembechler Hall, Michigan’s football facility.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Be wary of positions that don’t require interviews or specific qualifications.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • There is, however, one aspect of DOGE that the American people should be wary of that few are talking about: its impassioned deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to take the reins of the federal government.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • When breaches do occur, the notifications are often vague or slow to arrive, leaving users unaware of the risks they have been exposed to—and unsure of how to respond effectively.
    Alex Vakulov, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Despite this, physicists have long been unsure exactly how most flashes get started.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • On the surface, the creamy tomato dish with citrusy greens has all the makings of a dinner that seems too good to be true—minimal prep, a handful of ingredients, and only one pot to clean up afterward—so naturally lots of folks are skeptical.
    Audrey Bruno, SELF, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Still, learning to think like a historian does not necessarily prepare someone to be a skeptical news consumer.
    Lightning Jay, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But European governments remain hesitant about confiscating the capital.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
  • For those hesitant about sprinting due to fear of injury, here is a simple progression to help get started safely.
    Jesse Pines, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Some Europeans are becoming leery of visiting the U.S., as reports of U.S. immigration authorities detaining them while traveling, for reasons that are not clear, swirl.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Upper-chamber Democrats are leery of blocking the bill, writes The Hill’s Alexander Bolton, fearing that a shutdown may backfire by giving Musk and the Trump administration more leverage to force federal workers into retirement.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Recent antagonism toward the government workforce, however, has targeted a particular type: the office-dweller, the laptop-user, the knowledge worker who is possibly remote, possibly dead, whose products are indeterminate and, therefore, of dubious value.
    Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
  • During his long television career, Oz's promotion of dubious health products has gotten him into hot water.
    Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Oversuspicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversuspicious. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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