spook
Example Sentences
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The company’s ongoing need to raise money has spooked investors, and Oracle shares have fallen in half from their September peak.
From MarketWatch
At times, she recreates show conditions at home so her pageant queens and kings won’t be spooked by whatever the competition throws at them.
But by his measure, it’s “only” 1998, when the blowup of Long-Term Capital Management spooked the S&P 500, but the market still had a good distance left to run.
From Barron's
The group spooked markets when it said in July ahead of a trade deal between the European Union and the U.S. that it couldn’t guarantee growth in 2026 because of tariff-related uncertainty.
A collapse in the value of the initial debtor-in-possession loan has spooked lenders, which now question if First Brands is too far gone, and if the chapter 11 is only digging a deeper hole.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
