as in Chicken Little
one given to forebodings and predictions of impending calamity more than one Cassandra on Wall Street had warned that the market was overdue for a major correction

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Noun
  • Imagine how validated Rainbeau must feel, like Chicken Little when the town wakes up to the fact that aliens are actually coming.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
  • What’s Chicken Little to do if the sky really is falling?
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • Even Josephides, the tourism industry doomsayer, thinks recovery is possible.
    Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Bruckheimer is not one of the doomsayers foretelling the end of movies.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
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“Cassandra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Cassandra. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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