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bedbug

[bed-buhg] / ˈbɛdˌbʌg /




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I watched as the girls bounced around the mansion, appearing carefree, bedbug free and parking ticket-free.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

A bedbug-sniffing dog deployed by the Encore found a live bedbug on Dec. 5 after a guest complained, according to the news station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

Its September 2023 report lists a litany of complaints including bedbug infestations, cold, regulations which forbid exercise in cells, insufficient hot water and poor food.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024

The bedbug break-out during Paris fashion week this fall was obviously horrifying, but the bad news doesn’t stop there.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2023

The door opened and her Mama came in and told Portia that Miss Brown had said she found a bedbug in her room.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

He often gets bitten by bedbugs and walks with a cane, making climbing up and down from his bed difficult.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

At night, bedbugs nibbled at the 312 people laying like sardines on the floor of Namazi’s section of Ward 4.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

The only insects more reviled by Seoul residents are cockroaches and bedbugs, according to a survey conducted by local data company Embrain last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025

After eating late-night stomach-turning Popeyes in Paris and shedding some tears, we stayed in a trippy '80s-styled hotel, fearful of Parisian bedbugs ready to chomp on our American flesh.

From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2025

Scourin’ floors, washin’ win-ders and curtains, and scrubbin’ furniture like they’s cooties or bedbugs in ever piece.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns


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