Thesaurus results for BUGABOO

bugaboo

noun

ˈbə-gə-ˌbü

Definition of bugaboo

as in dread

something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason doing one's tax returns is a real bugaboo for a lot of people

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Recent Examples of bugaboo En route to finally winning a Super Bowl, the Colts were finally getting the upper hand on their longtime bugaboo, the Brady-Bill Belichick Patriots. — Jim Reineking, USA Today, 4 May 2026 Five batters into Sunday’s game and the home run bugaboo that plagued Imanaga last season delivered a sense of déjà vu to the 33,559 fans in attendance at Wrigley Field. — Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026 But defense remains a big bugaboo, especially around the rim. — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026 Quite simply, Texas got bit by the same bugaboo that has haunted it this entire season. — Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bugaboo

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Noun

Artificial is pointedly funnier than his other work, including a large comedic performance by Ike Barinholtz as Musk, even as an existential dread permeates.

— E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Audiences can expect natural richness, such as underwater images of glistening shellfish, to encounter ecological dread.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of dread

Noun

British authorities have linked the terror plot to Tehran, although Iran has denied involvement.

— Azhar Sukri,Terri Cullen, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
That resonated for me because the war on terror did a tremendous amount of damage to people, and those people have suffered in silence.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of terror

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In the war-and-plague story of Volume II, the wartime siege of Constantinople exacerbates the extreme heat and causes the ruin of the city as well as the eventual spread of the epidemic from the battlefields to the wider world.

— Eileen Hunt, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026
So, this system, in pursuit of making money, could do a large takeover through methods like remote drone strikes, and a potential plague.

— David Pogue, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of plague

Noun

Doug Ghim had another bogey-free round, this one a 62 that left him two shots behind along with Kevin Streelman, who had a 65.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
The most prominent of those techniques were the use of airbags to land Pathfinder on Mars, as well its Sojourner rover's rocker-bogie suspension system.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 27 Sep. 2026

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