bugaboo

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

So I thought, well, when I write my book, I’m gonna take the bugaboo out of Chinese cooking and demystify it.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022

Market risk, or principal risk is the potential for the stock and bond markets to kick you in the teeth, and it’s the big bugaboo for most investors.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2022

Here’s another bugaboo that English teachers used to get worked up over.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

So many of our growing cultural bugaboos came to a head in our reckoning with Fauci.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022

Even yet I have something like admiration for the ingenuity of my elders in conjuring up spooks, hob-goblins, and bugaboos with which to scare me into submission.

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson