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

So I thought, well, when I write my book, I’m gonna take the bugaboo out of Chinese cooking and demystify it.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022

The problem in the eyes of many pundits is the old bugaboo that President Bill Clinton’s political guru, James Carville, cited as the number one issue in every election: “It’s the economy, stupid!”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2022

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

But fear, as of formless bugaboos in the dark, burned in her heart at the idea of his influence perhaps being able, creepily, stealthily, to convert Gerald.

From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall