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
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My Sister's Keeper (2009), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), and lent her voice to Chicken Little (2005), the Toy Story franchise, Arthur Christmas (2011), and Klaus (2019).—
Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
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Chick is a family nickname for Chiles after the character Chicken Little.—
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But given the dismal prognostication record of climate doomsayers — wasn’t New York City supposed to be under water by now?—
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Their mini-quests provide a bit of decent action here and there, as well as plenty of principled banter between a blinkered optimist (Lucy) and jaded doomsayer (Ghoul).—
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“Cassandra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Cassandra. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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