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bug

noun as in bacterium, microorganism

Strong match

noun as in insect

Strongest matches

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noun as in obsession

noun as in computer glitch

verb as in bother, disturb

verb as in listen to without permission

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A scuffle with WordPress, the website-building service, erupted last week after Apple booted the developer from the App Store, preventing WordPress from issuing updates, such as bug fixes, to its iOS app.

From Fortune

The secrecy, at least for the people who helped design the system, is a feature not a bug.

In Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard described her horror at watching a frog whose innards were liquefied and then sucked dry by a giant water bug.

Google has now explained the massive search bug from yesterday was related to an issue with its indexing systems.

Google has had some search bugs over the past year, mostly around crawling and indexing.

I was thinking about retiring from modeling, but spending that time with them rekindled that bug.

But is bug protein really any better than traditional protein sources, like chicken, or your go-to protein powder?

Read on to find out what you need to know before whipping up bug-infused banana bread.

Underneath, a miniature version of the bug-crazy man is revealed, himself thwacking away in an alternate dimension.

Their company, Ready to Go Survival, sells prepacked survival, or “bug out,” bags and kits.

The men stood around bug-eyed and stared incredulously—all but High-Pockets.

Both were bitten by the gambling bug in Saratoga and went West, not to grow up with, but to fairly conquer the country.

In reality it is only the female which is the lightning bug, for the male is not equipped with any lighting power.

The proverb should read, "It is the early bird that catches the bug," and different birds have different ways of going about it.

When a duck goes after a bug he acts much like a ball player trying to steal a base.

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On this page you'll find 164 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bug, such as: disease, germ, infection, microbe, virus, and bacillus.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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