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bugaboo

[buhg-uh-boo] / ˈbʌg əˌbu /


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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

Starting fast takes discipline and not just on offense or defense but on special teams, the Broncos’ biggest bugaboo for the last few seasons and again this summer.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2021

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

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




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