bugaboo

Example Sentences

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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

Still, Grubauer couldn’t stop everything and the old Kraken bugaboo of yielding a goal right after scoring one again reared its ugly head fewer than three minutes after Blackwell’s goal.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2022

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

She had re-membered the stories of her childhood, the most loathly and ancient bugaboo her nurse had ever frightened her with.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye