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Meanings of cagy in inglês

Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.

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        Characterized by great caution and wariness.

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              Examples for "clever"
              Examples for "clever"
              1
              However the team found a clever way of working out the age.
              Radio NZ
              2
              At first he thought simply of clever questions to ask the Sage.
              Mixed Magics
              3
              MagSafe is extremely clever as a concept and exceedingly fine in reality.
              The Verge
              4
              The vibe knob is a clever solution to a thorny social problem.
              Wired
              5
              There's some really clever use of pixelation and freezing and different points.
              The Irish Times
              1
              Independent coffee shop owners can succeed by being canny about location, however.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Now Crystal Palace are feeling the benefits of Allardyce's canny transfer work.
              The Guardian
              3
              I have forgotten the password that seemed so canny two months ago.
              The Irish Times
              4
              The technician in charge was a canny white-haired Scotsman named John McKenzie.
              Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Chapters 1 and 2
              5
              One choice bit of evidence he secured in a most canny manner.
              The Man from Brodney's
              1
              Minurso officers are cagey about the last time ceasefire terms were violated.
              Reuters
              2
              I asked them some questions about Jamila, and they were definitely cagey.
              Evanly bodies
              3
              He wouldn't give you the time of day; he was too cagey.
              The big bite
              4
              You had to be careful with Cello; she was so socially cagey.
              Black Deutschland
              5
              I couldn't tell if he was being cagey, or was simply obtuse.
              Speaking in Bones
              Usage of cagy in inglês
              1
              Modoc narrowed his eyes in a cagy expression.
              Navigators of Dune
              2
              You'd be surprised at how cagy those officers got after a few of them had been captured.
              Spacehounds of IPC
              3
              The damn college administration is being cagy.
              All the pretty dead girls
              4
              The little man had cagy eyes and he used them on the whole room before he got around to me.
              One night stands & lost weekends
              5
              Although, to be fair, they've been acting more cagy than usual lately, hiding out in meetings with strange suits from other departments.
              The Atrocity Archives
              6
              The European Commission was cagy on whether the row would affect the EU-U.S. free trade talks set to begin in Washington on July 8.
              Reuters
              7
              Amazon has so far been cagy about the size of its AWS business, but it's thought to be in the $1 billion-per-year range.
              Wired
              8
              Chrismus Eve ther boys got some cagy, an' we all decided ter go inter Cut Bank, ther tradin' town some ten mile away, an' cellybrate.
              Ted Strong in Montana / Or, With Lariat and Spur
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              These cagY recombination events typically lead to a reduction in T4SS function in mouse and primate models.
              Pubmed
              10
              Complementation analysis of H pylori strains isolated from a patient over time showed changes in T4SS function that were dependent on recombination in cagY.
              Pubmed
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              Conclusions: Analysis of H pylori strains from mice and from a chronically infected patient showed that CagY functions as an immune-sensitive regulator of T4SS function.
              Pubmed
              12
              To assess relevance to human beings, T4SS function and cagY recombination were assessed in strains obtained sequentially from a patient after 7.4 years of infection.
              Pubmed
              Cagy through the time