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bugaboo

noun as in fear

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She believes "we won't even need health care" if Kennedy gets rid of vaccines and other crank bugaboos like genetically modified foods.

From Salon

He later apologized, adding that he misspoke and meant to say “bugaboo.”

“While attempting to use the word ‘bugaboo’ in a hearing, I used a phrase that is offensive,” he said.

For Mr. Ackman, and for many Republicans and segments of the moderate left, diversity, equity and inclusion or D.E.I. programs have become a bugaboo, shorthand for liberal hypocrisy in academia and wrongheaded business practices.

It is the climate change bugaboo that humans mostly either deny or ignore.

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

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