cold feet

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Recent Examples of cold feet But Borgli isn’t just delivering a biting satire on the ultimate case of cold feet. David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026 Did OpenAI’s discontinuation of Sora force Disney out of the deal, or did Disney get cold feet first? Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 25 Mar. 2026 And Indonesia isn’t the only country getting cold feet. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 18 Mar. 2026 And if someone ends up getting cold feet over giving an AI agent access to their entire lives? Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cold feet
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Noun
  • Her apartment offers exceptional views of the basilica, but the uncertainty surrounding the project has become a source of constant concern and has even prevented her from investing in renovations.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
  • Jans’s core message, however, was that the population cap would increase uncertainty in already unstable times.
    Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Certainly, there’s no doubt that your environment makes a difference to your wellbeing.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • The injury casts doubt on her availability for Wimbledon.
    Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • The obvious parallel is with another massive underdog, Gray Davis, who also came from far behind to win the last time a gubernatorial primary held this level of uncertainty and suspense.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • Levinson has fun drawing out the suspense at the border and with the DEA raid.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Finding the police at our place, then, wasn’t really a surprise, and my pulse returned to its usual rhythm, oddly calmed by the fact that the dread had finally left my heart.
    Andrea Bajani, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
  • The prospect of voters heading to the polls in November to decide whether to give themselves a break on their property taxes has put cities in South Florida and across the state on edge, triggering alarm and dread.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Candidates such as New York Democratic House hopeful Alex Bores have also made AI regulation a campaign issue by tapping into voters’ angst about the technology.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 June 2026
  • Candidates such as New York Democratic House hopeful Alex Bores have also made AI regulation a campaign issue by tapping into voters’ angst about the technology.
    Joey Cappelletti, Fortune, 5 June 2026
Noun
  • What to do after writing some of this century’s most devastating songs about the torment of breaking up?
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Protestant ethics, however, are not violated without the torment of guilt or the pleasure of self-destruction; never good enough, never bad enough.
    Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • To put it plainly, there is no foreboding El Niño cloud that will appear above your house, and many random weather events will still occur that have few, if any, tangible links to the weather phenomenon.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • The discordant, Bernard Herrmann-esque bursts of María Portugal’s rich score ratchet up the suspense and foreboding.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • And if not for a fortunate deflection off a Bosnia and Herzegovina defender in the 78th minute, Canada would have found itself on the wrong side of the biggest upset of the World Cup so far.
    Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
  • Even with all those extra teams – there’s 48 in this year’s tournament, up 16 from recent editions – there will still be the surprises and upsets that make every World Cup special.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 11 June 2026

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“Cold feet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20feet. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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