bugaboo

But the latest bugaboo from the banking lobby is the possibility of other companies rewarding customers for using stablecoins.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025

And despite getting Anthony Rizzo to pop up for the second out, the long-ball bugaboo bit him against Volpe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

To wit: a literal — if incorporeal — bugaboo, the kind that has plagued and marred many an otherwise impeccable, even artful, horror film, as this one is.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021

Quarterback has been the Broncos’ biggest bugaboo since winning Super Bowl 50 in Hall of Famer Peyton Manning’s farewell game — they haven’t been back to the playoffs since.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2021

McMillan and Alvarez returned from Los Alamos impatient to try out new approaches they had conceived to address that old bugaboo, the relativistic barrier to higher energies.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

But the real bugaboos in fixed income are volatility, stubborn inflation, and higher interest rates.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

But they really seem sincere about their bugaboos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

And there's an intelligence in that rendering, as if she admirably recognizes that she doesn't want her kids to inherit her bugaboos.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2023

So many of our growing cultural bugaboos came to a head in our reckoning with Fauci.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022

However, parents wishing to frighten their daughters away from the stage have naturally enough set up several great bugaboos collectively known as "temptations"—individually known as the "manager," the "public," etc.

From Stage Confidences by Clara Morris