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

“We came back out in the third quarter, and it was just really a bugaboo for us,” Indiana Coach Teri Moren said.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2022

Slow starts have long been the Broncos’ bugaboo, but Shurmur is now 0 for 21 on opening drive touchdowns in Denver.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021

Here’s another bugaboo that English teachers used to get worked up over.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

Yet despite the song’s uninhibited raunch, its popularity was partly earned from one of the music industry’s oldest bugaboos: self-censorship.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2020

When we once get seated at our humble board in our rural cot I won't be afraid of any bugaboos, but I didn't want them brought up then.

From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Stockton, Frank Richard