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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For all the pre-launch Chicken Little-ing about America’s seeming disinterest in the World Cup, the TV and streaming audiences thus far have surpassed even the expectations of FIFA’s network partners.
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Chicken Little may have been onto something!
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Huang said this demonstrates the difference between a job’s task and its purpose, which often get conflated by AI doomsayers.
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Entry-level roles are shrinking—maybe not across the board or as quickly as some doomsayers have predicted, but the data is growing.
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“Cassandra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Cassandra. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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