How to Use caveat emptor in a Sentence

caveat emptor

noun
  • This appeared to be far more than caveat emptor.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 May 2026
  • But any deal for Bauer will come with a caveat emptor — buy at your own risk.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Services aimed at reducing costs will find ways to do so — but caveat emptor.
    — Peter A. Bonis, STAT, 11 Sep. 2022
  • All this may sound alarmist, a caveat emptor of preemptive self-pity for the prospective thru-hiker.
    — Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2021
  • As for the underwriters who structure such deals, caveat emptor is their motto.
    — Richard Lehmann, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Life insurance is very much a product that involves caveat emptor – let the buyer beware.
    — Steve Parrish, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • Other lemon vodkas will be fine, but be warned that the producer can add sugar to the vodka and not tell anyone, so caveat emptor.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 15 July 2021
  • And if companies that go public via SPAC aren’t able to do that, caveat emptor.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Whatever happened to caveat emptor, common sense and the ability to reason?
    — WSJ, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The Latin expression caveat emptor (buyer beware) serves as a cautionary piece of good advice.
    — Yoav Kutner, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • So caveat emptor also enters the equation, which tends to lower any potential return -- or even interest.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 June 2018
  • Whether or not to jailbreak is really a caveat emptor proposition, and certainly not something for casual or novice users.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2019
  • The general principle of caveat emptor — let the buyer beware — can make sense for the sorts of facts that responsible buyers would find out for themselves.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Even if sellers tell prospective buyers that the vehicle briefly served as a boat, the full extent of the damage might not be evident, which brings us to the caveat emptor part of the story.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 7 Oct. 2022
  • New Yorkers are going to be talking about Speaker’s Corner, at 8-5, but caveat emptor.
    — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
  • The group last week designated Crypto as a caveat emptor security, which means that a skull and crossbones icon sits next to the stock symbol on the OTC markets website.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Despite dramatic scientific breakthroughs, the Internet has recreated the kind of caveat emptor culture for medical advice that existed in the 19th century.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • In early April, the federal agency that regulates wine and other alcoholic beverages issued a mild warning to producers — and a caveat emptor to consumers — about potentially misleading health claims in advertising.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 19 May 2022

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