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
Slow starts have long been the Broncos’ bugaboo, but Shurmur is now 0 for 21 on opening drive touchdowns in Denver.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
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
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
Zach LaVine dunked on Argentina’s Juan Pablo Vaulet in the fourth quarter to seal a thorough victory in which the Americans addressed many of their top bugaboos.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021
When we once get seated at our humble board in our rural cot I won't be afraid of any bugaboos, but I didn't want them brought up then.
From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Frank Richard Stockton
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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The Testaments
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