bogeyman
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The world-ending A.I. bogeyman becomes even less believable when the warnings are placed in proper context.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
He embraced the role of migra bogeyman like a tween boy scarfing down a bowl of Warheads, always promising more deportations, more chaos, more more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
This particular European bogeyman dates back to 2014, when the U.S. and the European Union were negotiating a trans-Atlantic trade agreement.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2026
Consider buddleboy, bogeyman, bumboat man, flirter, higgler, pugger, muffleman, quarrel picker, spittle-maker, whiff-maker and willy man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
“Now, now, sweetie,” Pa said to Miss Hendrix, the same way he told Fern, “Now, now baby girl. Ain’t no bogeyman in the radiator pipe.”
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
But that angst can be projected onto bogeymen.
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
In unflattering media coverage, the bogeymen comparisons veer from the Grinch to the Hood, the bald-headed, bushy-eyebrowed baddie from 1960s puppet TV series.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2022
Both are worldly, well into middle age, and both sense the need to explore their own catacombs and confront the bogeymen within.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
As she reads the one word text—“RUN” —the soundtrack becomes a piercing thrum, the kind that suggests a bogeymen of some sort will soon appear.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2020
“I rode hyenas after dark! I made chidoma, bogeymen, out of dead bodies! I caused Chipo to have twins! Augh! Augh!”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
