spook
noun
Example Sentences
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At 10 to 11 times forward revenue, any growth that falls short of perfect spooks the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The correlation will break when an event spooks markets.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
If books are an answer to dictatorships — and as strong as “an organization packed with spooks and paramilitaries who fought in warzones” — it would be inspiring to see more of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
One of the tougher puzzles asks would-be spooks to calculate how far off from writing the numbers 1-20 the puzzle setters were.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024
I loved him because he made it plain, never mystical or esoteric, because his science was not rooted in the actions of spooks and mystery gods but in the work of the physical world.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
