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Recent Examples of bogeyman
Among Hollywood’s creative class, AI is a sort of bogeyman right now.
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Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2025
Souleymane, played devastatingly by first-timer Abou Sangaré, is neither a bogeyman or a saint — just a young man trying to navigate a bureaucratic limbo that might as well have been designed to make those in it vulnerable to exploitation.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The world's largest online streamer and feared bogeyman (along with YouTube) of traditional media companies is taking yet another baby step into sports.
—Alex Sherman,contessa Brewer, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2025
The Antifa that Trump is always invoking as an all-purpose bogeyman—some lethal, disciplined underground network that resembles the Irish Republican Army—does not exist.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
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Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2025
Souleymane, played devastatingly by first-timer Abou Sangaré, is neither a bogeyman or a saint — just a young man trying to navigate a bureaucratic limbo that might as well have been designed to make those in it vulnerable to exploitation.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The world's largest online streamer and feared bogeyman (along with YouTube) of traditional media companies is taking yet another baby step into sports.
—Alex Sherman,contessa Brewer, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2025
The Antifa that Trump is always invoking as an all-purpose bogeyman—some lethal, disciplined underground network that resembles the Irish Republican Army—does not exist.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bogeyman
Noun
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One pilot was rescued but at least one pilot was reportedly missing, raising the specter of Iran potentially capturing the pilot.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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The inevitable result of this isolation is tension, frustration, and despair, heightened by the specter of the murders of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi at the hands of COs.—
Steve Zeidman,
New York Daily News,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Barred from his high school basketball team due to his temper, a hot-head, street-baller battles demons from his past and present to earn a spot on a summer league team and his last shot at a college basketball scholarship.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
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Rodriguez-Singh called Noel evil and a demon, police have said.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Devil’s Museum, a satellite of the main collection, has amassed more than 3,000 depictions of demons, evil spirits and incubus from around the world.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Your fame sits beside you like an incubus, and people are embarrassed and want to leave the room.—
Candace Bushnell,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Created by a number of its stars, Ghosts originated on the BBC in 2019, following a group of ghouls from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2026
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Ledger ingeniously plays the Joker as a chaotic force of nature, a scarred and unknowable ghoul clad in clown paint and a garish suit from Demon's Wearhouse.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Such a designation, evidently, would save agents from wasting time chasing phantoms.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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The Stygiomedusa gigantea, commonly known as the giant phantom jelly, was filmed at 250 meters below the surface.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Weaving, even more than before, makes Grace an ingénue gone banshee.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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The bond between a rider and their banshee doesn't break, and chances are your bond with this two-figure set won't either.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
19 Dec. 2025
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Meanwhile, with the country living in terror under Homelander’s reign, Kripke previously noted that the real-world political parallels in Season 5 are coincidental, as the concluding episodes were written before the 2024 election.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2026
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Many experts say long-term regional security depends on Lebanon’s government and army disarming the terror group.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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The second was more bizarre: that some nasty imp in my psyche might decide that jumping was a good idea.—
Rosecrans Baldwin,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026
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Mykal-Michelle Harris from Raven’s Home guest-stars as Ruby, a mischievous moon imp who tricks Vee.—
Allison McClain Merrill,
Parents,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Bogeyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogeyman. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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