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Recent Examples of cold feet
Meta isn’t the only example of investors getting cold feet about AI spending.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
Given all the anxiety, sometimes sellers who are willing to accommodate buyers’ demands still can’t overcome their cold feet.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Patrick Suzuki, an Asian American man with insecurities about his ethnicity, proposes to Kacie McIntosh, a white woman, who says yes — only to get cold feet within hours of seeing him.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
So don’t get cold feet now, coach.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
Given all the anxiety, sometimes sellers who are willing to accommodate buyers’ demands still can’t overcome their cold feet.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Patrick Suzuki, an Asian American man with insecurities about his ethnicity, proposes to Kacie McIntosh, a white woman, who says yes — only to get cold feet within hours of seeing him.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
So don’t get cold feet now, coach.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold feet
Noun
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The Change Agent leads with resilience, embraces uncertainty and helps teams move confidently through transformation.—
Kelly Jones,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The vast majority of recent prediction markets growth has come from sports betting, a category that has come online only recently due to legal uncertainty.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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There is no doubt that the plan is ambitious and comprehensive.—
Shaoyu Yuan,
The Conversation,
5 Nov. 2025
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The biggest news Tuesday was how the court was going to define the relevant market in the antitrust case, no doubt.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Nov. 2025
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Start the new year with a little extra suspense.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Dec. 2025
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And, the heightened level of suspense, coupled with the reader’s invitation to examine the complexities of the human heart, definitely makes this book a must-read.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
30 Dec. 2025
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That last reassuring prediction lowered my dread meter enough to consider the Connecticut homegrown disruptive events that will require attention but do not threaten annihilation.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
3 Jan. 2026
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For many Venezuelans in Austin, news that United States forces had captured Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, landed with a mix of relief and dread.—
Julianna Duennes Russ,
Austin American Statesman,
3 Jan. 2026
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Treating childhood fevers has long been a source of parental angst.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
6 Nov. 2025
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If somehow this were to last until the Thanksgiving holiday, however, there's going to be a lot of angst to say the least.—
Todd Spangler,
Freep.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Scream With Me expands on this argument with its analysis of The Exorcist, a movie that Johnson interprets as a parable about physical abuse; its male demon torments and beats a single working mother and her child.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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Jeremy Allen White, who always seems to do inchoate torment so well, makes a fine Springsteen.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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Ineke Zeldenrust, international coordinator for the Clean Clothes Campaign, a witness signatory of the Accord, has long nursed a sense of foreboding about where worker safety is headed in Bangladesh.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
15 Dec. 2025
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Derek Hinkey’s character, the Shoshone warrior Red Feather, is almost always frowning at white settlers, looking undeniably foreboding with his face slathered in black paint and galloping on horseback into battle.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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While Canada will face Guatemala, the team that pulled an upset on the Canadians in the Gold Cup quarterfinals, on January 17, more important pre-World Cup matches loom.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Ole Miss earned its spot with an upset of its own — over SEC foe Georgia — but the Hurricanes’ defensive front is arguably the best in the nation.—
Keven Lerner,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Cold feet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20feet. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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