How To Use Bugaboo In A Sentence
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If you have, I may venture to leave it to you to inspect it closely, and see whether it contains any of those "bugaboos" which frighten Judge Douglas.
Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings
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Middle-class, first-time parents will man the patrols with a three-wheel Bugaboo pushchair carrying their corn-fed, mop-topped urchins.
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Before studying at Xiamen University I was employed as a corporate English trainer and delivered classes and seminars to companies such as Emerson Power Transmission, Black and Decker, and Bugaboo.
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We don't want wrong-note anxiety to be the bugaboo.
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OrenWithAnE: Seconded, so long as the Right gets equal tar for supressing their particular bugaboos.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Life Speech “Upsetting” and “Not OK” for the Duke University Women’s Center
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He is that familar bugaboo of Jack's, a clubman and a society man, "the sort that grace social functions and utter inanities with a charm and unction which are indescribable; the sort that talk big, and cry over a toothache; the sort that put more hell into a woman's life by marrying her than can the most graceless libertine that ever browsed in forbidden pastures.
“There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice.”
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An extremely long hitter with a fabled touch around the greens, Mickelson and Smith continue to work on his chief bugaboo: accuracy off the tee.
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the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them
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Anglo-Indian cooperation, however, only opened up well-established American bugaboos about the violence of an Indian war; even Thomas Jefferson linked the war to those emotions, arguing in June 1812, “[To take] possession of that country [Canada] secures our women & children for ever from the tomahawk & scalping knife, by removing those who excite them.”
Between War and Peace
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The two biggest bugaboos bedeviling these preeminent directors are commercialization and overcrowding.
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Burchard was summarizing three "bugaboos" that got the Republican "base vote" riled about the Democrats:
Archive 2005-06-01
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This dilemma isn't confined to non-professional players; it has become a bugaboo for some of the top professionals on tour too.
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Even coal, the bugaboo of climate change, would make a better husband for water, saving billions of gallons of waterflow yearly, even after consuming more water for sulfur removal.
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The second hazard is that old bugaboo, moisture, encouraging mildew growth and eventual decay.
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Anglo-Indian cooperation, however, only opened up well-established American bugaboos about the violence of an Indian war; even Thomas Jefferson linked the war to those emotions, arguing in June 1812, “[To take] possession of that country [Canada] secures our women & children for ever from the tomahawk & scalping knife, by removing those who excite them.”
Between War and Peace
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On a related matter, lack of socialization is the bugaboo of the anti-homeschooler.
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Seconded, so long as the Right gets equal tar for supressing their particular bugaboos.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Life Speech “Upsetting” and “Not OK” for the Duke University Women’s Center
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But monotony - the bugaboo of any training program - had reared its ugly head in my direction.
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Still, the bugaboos of data transparency and price fixing concern regulators.
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Bugaboo is from the archaic term bogy boo -- a term for a hobgoblin or anything that haunts, bothers, bugs, harasses, irks, annoys, or frightens, like the bogeyman.
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By doing so, engineers were able to eliminate or reduce many of the rotary's exhaust-related bugaboos, which primarily were related to emissions and fuel economy.
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You can put a newborn baby lying flat in it; other Bugaboos are bigger and have a separate carrycot which is more expensive.
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I returned the coin to Noah, assuring him that I had no further need of it, and he went away well pleased, assured of the protection of the white man's duppy -- the token of the good spirits which he venerates as much as he fears the bugaboos.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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Sounds like dangling that ole lawsuit bugaboo.
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In the fast-emerging video direct marketing arena, this fact-versus-fiction scenario had been somewhat of an industry bugaboo until just a few years ago.
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To the ACLU's secular Jewish policy-makers, Christianity is a tool of majority opression of "victimized minorities" which has to be warred on along with other high agenda bugaboos like firearms ownership, bigots who won't let courts impose gay marriage, and "heteronormative" institutions like the Boy Scouts.
Protesting minarets.
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There are liable to be rocks, propellers, exhaust, slippery decks, cleats, and a host of other potential bugaboos that must be considered.
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The Endangered Species Act has long been a bugaboo for anti-environmental lawmakers, who have unsuccessfully attacked it from every imaginable direction.
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There are liable to be rocks, propellers, exhaust, slippery decks, cleats, and a host of other potential bugaboos that must be considered.
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Keys have always been my bugaboo, but when my youngest daughter Addy was a toddler, she usually solved my dilemma.
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They are still America's greatest and most enduring bugaboos.
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One of the main bugaboos that Americans have about national healthcare is the fear that it means long waiting times for office visits and elective surgery.
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Since 1975, landmines have killed over a million people, far outstripping the deaths caused by those well-publicized bugaboos, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
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Almost sixty years later, Japanese militarism remains the great bugaboo of East Asian politics.
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The second hazard is that old bugaboo, moisture, encouraging mildew growth and eventual decay.
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The bugaboos in larger versions of this optimistic vision are highly variable flows of material, and decentralized, dilute concentrations of reclaimable stuff.
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These bugaboos, however, can be corrected in time with patient example and education.
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Back in September 2008, David Bookbinder, chief climate council for the Sierra Club, derided as "bugaboos," a "red herring," and a "pure scare tactic" (see segments 1: 47: 10-1: 48: 22 and
Planet Gore
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On the ground at Italy's Bologna International Airport, I ran into the same old bugaboos that make travel back home such a hassle.
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In fact, the entire notion of ‘scarcity’ is a bugaboo contrived by conservative economists to justify the distributional injustice of the capitalist system.
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It is unforgettable -- for the boy and for readers -- as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack's village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo (a hobgoblin king); kelpies; yarthkins; and elves (not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend).
The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer: Book summary
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The former -- when we're talking about homosexuality, rather than your bugaboos of incest, etc. -- is a variant behaviour which is used to mark out another group as deviants to be abjected by the unethical who justify their prejudice as morality.
Archive 2009-08-01
