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bugaboo

noun as in fear

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Gwyneth Paltrow wheeled her daughter Apple around London in a Bugaboo pram.

Not exactly a Bugaboo, sure, but it does have a nifty one-hand folding feature and weighs only 11 pounds.

Indeed, the coming LGBT tyranny is a long-standing bugaboo for Porter.

Can we return the souped-up Bugaboo strollers and turn off the shiny iPhone rattles in favor of simpler tools for raising a child?

Over-optimistic forecasts, coupled with underperformance, have long been a GM bugaboo.

I want to tell you not to fear this bugaboo of interstate competition.

All sorts of atrocities ensued, and Black Hawk's name became a household bugaboo the country over.

The old bugaboo about earthquakes throwing it down is a danger that exists only in the minds of those who see ghosts.

Such men find it easy to transform into a bugaboo any one who appears to them to be acting irregularly.

They both had a good laugh, for they feared nothing in this Universe; least of all that great bugaboo, poverty.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bugaboo, such as: alarm, bogey, bogeyman, bogy, bugbear, and fright.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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