How to Use bugbear in a Sentence

bugbear

noun
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  • The biggest bugbear of the skiing business is a winter with no snow.
  • Many of the series' most pernicious bugbears have been dumped.
    — Daniel Starkey, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
  • His shoulders, for one, have always been a real bugbear for him.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Samsung’s other software bugbears are present on the Note 9, too.
    — Dan Seifert, The Verge, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Range anxiety, once the bugbear of mainstream thought about EVs, is no longer the top concern for shoppers.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 27 May 2022
  • Such cases have been a bugbear for the liberal civil-rights cause.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • This approach has raised anew the bugbear of the unassimilable Other in our midst.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Charging infrastructure is likely to be the biggest bugbear for the next few years.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
  • For many in the field of sustainable investing, one of the biggest bugbears has been a lack of standardization.
    — Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 25 June 2019
  • This was one of the series' continuing bugbears, as explained in this three-part post by Yamauchi from 2014.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2017
  • An old bugbear—the competition—is nipping at its heels.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Airbus said three problem aircraft programs will remain a bugbear for the rest of the year after weighing on earnings in the first quarter.
    — Benjamin Katz, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The theme is light and fairly inconsequential, so even those who don’t know the difference between a goblin and a bugbear can still have a blast.
    — Aaron Zimmerman, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The crushing of socialism—and a new bugbear, communism—was total.
    — Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • One huge bugbear of most FIFA 18 players is the mechanics of defending, which has been given a huge overhaul this year.
    — SI.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The new drivers also fix some bugbears that’ve been irritating AMD users.
    — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Genesis says the headroom constraints, as well as the bugbear of placing weight up high, is why the United States won't get the solar panoramic roof that will be offered in other markets.
    — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 21 June 2022
  • So that leaves Pelosi’s favorite impeachment bugbear: prospective losses for Democrats in the 2020 election cycle.
    — Elizabeth Spiers, The New Republic, 24 July 2019
  • Among other moves, China has already cracked down on trading halts, a major bugbear for foreign investors.
    — Shen Hong, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
  • Lounger-hogging like this is a constant bugbear for cruise lines; indeed, a few years ago, Carnival tested a program where staffers would patrol loungers like pool police.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The House speaker has long been a bugbear for the right, which has intensified its rhetorical blitz on her in recent years - even as extreme threats against members of Congress have increased.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Anyway, one of Curtis's longtime bugbears is the fictitious threat of fictitious voter fraud.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Farmer distress has been a bugbear in the Indian economy, and it was anticipated that the government may announce schemes to address the sector’s woes.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 31 Jan. 2020
  • That’s a particular bugbear for astronomers — artificial light obscures their view of the faintest objects.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2020
  • Paleospondylus means ancient vertebrae in Greek, but gunni is an old Scottish term for a bugbear, or boogeyman.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2022
  • Though trade is perhaps more to blame for dairy farmers’ struggles, alternative milks have become an industry bugbear.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2019
  • His speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday was a lucid and impassioned defense of multilateral decision-making and free trade – two of Trump’s top bugbears.
    — Peter Ford, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018
  • And what prevents that demonstration are not the bugbears of national populists: international treaties, the EU, or an influx of foreigners.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Joannopoulos said that the two competing methods of making photonic crystals — lithography and self-assembly — are each battling their own set of bugbears.
    — Mark K. Anderson, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2001
  • In part, using the debt ceiling as an intra-party wedge is not simply about the borrowing limit, no matter how much it's become a bugbear itself for fiscal conservatives.
    — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 9 Jan. 2023

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