boogeyman
Example Sentences
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The market is seeing a boogeyman that frankly doesn’t exist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
Artificial intelligence could be the boogeyman that gnaws at market share.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
Was Deen really an early victim of the fictitious celebrity boogeyman now known as “cancel culture,” or was she appropriately harangued?
From Salon • Sep. 7, 2025
With Moses as boogeyman, we are spared the more challenging question: Why did his worst decisions seem like such great ideas to so many people in the first place?
From Slate • Sep. 16, 2024
Vonetta didn’t notice, or she pretended she didn’t notice, but Fern had stopped clinging to Uncle D. Fern heard him hollering at night like the boogeyman howling and rattling in the radiator pipes.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
