bogeyman
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Both cast debt as a bogeyman turning capitalism into an extraction device that, left unchecked or unwisely channeled, can take everything from any of us.
From Salon ● May 4, 2026
“Uber is no longer the bogeyman it was,” said McNamara.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Genetics seems to be the big driver, reinforcing the argument that autism is a normal human variation and there is no Big Pharma bogeyman at the heart of this issue.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2025
Nicolas Cage plays the film’s titular bogeyman — but you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the marketing materials, which deliberately obscure the actor’s face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
Two carefully watches the bushes along the sidewalk for a lurking bogeyman or worse.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Once you start to see bogeymen in one place, it's easy to see them everywhere.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025
When I hear my students discuss these new tech bogeymen, I’m reminded of the mistakes we’ve made in critiquing the news media.
From Slate ● May 4, 2023
When your livelihood is endangered as Reid’s was, and when you’re under fire from people as powerful as the president of the United States, it’s reasonable to see bogeymen around every corner.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2018
But is this a case of seeing Russian bogeymen where there are none?
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2018
Maureen, who was four and had a terrible fear of bogeymen, kept dreaming that intruders in Halloween masks were coming through the open doors to get us.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
