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
  • For the travel and hospitality industry, many are wondering what summer 2025 will look like. Don’t be a Chicken Little.
    Adam Deflorian, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • Only Chicken Little would unduly worry about such an environmental change possibility some 75 years down the pike.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2025
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  • Plus, the doomsayers are missing critical details set to kick gold higher.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • The typical doomsayers came out in force to predict some new apocalypse, but several less frightening factors seemed to be at play.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Cassandra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Cassandra. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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