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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Termite damage is one of the many bugaboos of owning a house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt, the bugaboo of monopolists, had just been elected to a second term.
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One of the Unnamed Martyrs hurries home while, out of sight, three club-clutching bugaboos lie doggo.
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Sounds like dangling that ole lawsuit bugaboo .
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The second hazard is that old bugaboo , moisture, encouraging mildew growth and eventual decay.
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Without the Communist bugaboo , Dornan was exposed as the crackpot that he is.