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Chicken Little

NOUN
alarmist
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NOUN
doomsayer
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“Our kids need us to not be chicken little about every respiratory illness.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 7, 2023

Its mascot is a cartoon green chicken, in line with their tagline: “If chicken little got a Bloomberg terminal.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023

In the middle are the 15% undecided who don't believe either and don't respond to chicken little predictions.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2016

I’m no epidemic chicken little, but monitoring and testing for infection after entry to the U.S. seems too passive and reactive a policy for an active epidemic killer.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2014

"Have some chicken, little Worm?" he continued, opening the basket and preparing to eat.

From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Wren, Percival Christopher