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
Here’s another bugaboo that English teachers used to get worked up over.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Vocabulary lists containing bugaboo
Beowulf: A New Telling
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The Testaments
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