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What is a bogeyman?

What is a bogeyman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.
  2. (by extension) Any make-believe threat, especially one used to intimidate or distract.
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We have the means and enough reasons to blot this bogeyman out of existence.
It's become an iconic canvas onto which an entire generation projected its fear of the Other, a 1960s bogeyman.
It's the moment in which fear is no longer the bogeyman under your bed.
But some people really need to conquer their fear of this bogeyman that lurks in their psyches.
Thanks to mass media, he has become the poster boy and the bogeyman for a new age of terror.
But today's report comparing property inflation with rises in wages suggests we are frightened of the wrong bogeyman.

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