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

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

McMillan and Alvarez returned from Los Alamos impatient to try out new approaches they had conceived to address that old bugaboo, the relativistic barrier to higher energies.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Up hops in every mind those twin bugaboos, the Infant Hospital and the Orphan Asylum.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman