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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally, we come to the bugbear of the 1980s - rubbish collection.
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He also mentioned an old bugbear - he thought Vincent should dress better.
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Johnson held a not dissimilar reciprocal opinion, comparing Monboddo to another of his own bugbears, Rousseau.
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Nor was it his other bugbear , the wicked arms manufacturers.
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One of his main bugbears is the foreign ownership of technology.
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This seems to be a major bugbear of some guns, making them harder work than applying the adhesive from a tube.