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- doing my own tax return is the bête noire that haunts me every April
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- in that organization's view, society's number one bête noire should be the drunk driver of a motor vehicle
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“Bête noire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/b%C3%AAte%20noire. Accessed 24 May. 2022.
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