bugaboo
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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
“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
Starting fast takes discipline and not just on offense or defense but on special teams, the Broncos’ biggest bugaboo for the last few seasons and again this summer.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
She had re-membered the stories of her childhood, the most loathly and ancient bugaboo her nurse had ever frightened her with.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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
The category of “people we can make fun of” includes the obvious targets — celebrities, royals and politicians, The New York Times — as well as left-wing Twitter bugaboos Glenn Greenwald and Thomas Chatterton Williams.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
It would be well for us if the sins themselves were indeed such wretched bugaboos as he has painted for us.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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The Testaments
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