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- noun Plural form of
bugbear .
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Examples
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One of my big bugbears is courses that spend three years doing nothing but introducing students to new areas.
Archive 2006-02-01 Jonathan 2006
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One of my big bugbears is courses that spend three years doing nothing but introducing students to new areas.
Levelling up (no, nothing to do with Warcraft, but you'll wish it were...) Jonathan 2006
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I remember interviewing Norman when The Maestro Myth was published some years ago: one of his bugbears is the way that agents have pushed up conductors' fees to such crazy levels.
Heim truths Jessica 2005
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I guess that the least of your bugbears is your stay in France.
Ten Years Later Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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One of his bugbears is the quality of sound readily available for people use to listen to music.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Martin Chilton 2011
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One of his bugbears is the quality of sound readily available for people use to listen to music.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Martin Chilton 2011
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One of his bugbears is the quality of sound readily available for people use to listen to music.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Martin Chilton 2011
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They will not believe the revelation of God's wrath from heaven against their ungodliness and unrighteousness; unless they see it executed, they will not know it, as if the curse were brutum fulmen -- a mere flash, and all the threatenings of the word bugbears to frighten fools and children.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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She says a lot of the new album, My Best Friend Is You, produced by the former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler, deals with female empowerment - one of her bugbears is the inappropriate sexualisation of young girls in modern society.
Culture | guardian.co.uk Elizabeth Day 2010
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There's lots to dislike in the spec: my bugbears are the hamstrung time element, the continued use of dd and
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