How to Use Chicken Little in a Sentence
Chicken Little
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Is this part of their Chicken Little routine?
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Josh Boak,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Chicken Little may have been onto something!
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Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
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Chick is a family nickname for Chiles after the character Chicken Little.
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Nasha Smith,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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Imagine how validated Rainbeau must feel, like Chicken Little when the town wakes up to the fact that aliens are actually coming.
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Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2025
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Many wrote him off as a futuristic Chicken Little because of his predictions of mass job loss driven by automation and AI.
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Xochitl Gonzalez,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
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For all the pre-launch Chicken Little-ing about America’s seeming disinterest in the World Cup, the TV and streaming audiences thus far have surpassed even the expectations of FIFA’s network partners.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
17 June 2026
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O'Hara has also voiced countless movie characters, lending her talent to The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Chicken Little (2005), Elemental (2023) and The Wild Robot (2024).
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Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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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).
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Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Dec. 2025
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