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Example sentences for: spooked

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It spooked the market because Greenspan mentioned the reality of market panics, and because he linked "Dutch tulip bulbs" with "Russian equities."
Maybe they were spooked by Primus' statistical calculations showing some deterioration in the income of the bottom 10 percent of single parents, even though those numbers have been looking a lot better recently.
] This spooked Yankees, who feared that he knew something they didn't.
It gets to you, this movie--gets you titillated, then spooked, then suffused with righteous fury.
Rather perplexing that on a day when Lord Greenspan spooked the bond market with talk of a possible--though still only possible--rate hike, bank stocks were doing so well.