How to Use FOMO in a Sentence

FOMO

noun
  • Don’t fall into the FOMO trap and overbook yourself.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Were a few days of apprehensive action enough to reload the rally for a true year-end FOMO ramp?
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Is Treefort Music Fest giving you a bad case of FOMO already?
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Simply put, the FOMO mindset that has driven crypto for so long has landed in the precious metals arena.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Many deployments are premature, fueled more by fear of missing out (FOMO) than strategy.
    — Farah Ayadi, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Every summer, courtesy of my television, FOMO arrives.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Normalize missing out Helping your child navigate FOMO is all about learning to build perspective and resilience.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Normalize missing out Helping your child navigate FOMO is all about learning to build perspective and resilience.
    — Parents, 27 June 2026
  • Teach media literacy Managing social media FOMO begins with discussing the truth about what your kid is seeing online.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In a market whipped into a frenzy by a fear of missing out (FOMO) and algorithmic trading, doing nothing is often the superior strategy.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • This Fear Of Missing Out — aka FOMO — could be another major catalyst in younger people’s mass return to theaters.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Many a club’s board would have twitched in the face of the bare data, but the chain of command above Arteta stayed the course, and the FOMO is so high that tickets for Palace away this weekend are going for £45,000 ($60,000) on resale sites.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Mike Krieger, the millennial founder who created Instagram with Kevin Systrom and is now chief product officer at Anthropic, said businesses’ rapid adoption of new technology was fueled by a fear of missing out (FOMO).
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'FOMO.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: