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The negative mental-health impact of social media isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

And at a time when nostalgia is driving much of TV programming, the style’s familiarity may be a feature, not a bug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Her crippling impostor syndrome was a feature, not a bug — we were stuck there with her for at least two seasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Hewitt said he got the volunteering bug during "a wonderful time" helping Operation Osprey when he helped protect the first pair of ospreys to breed in the UK for more than 100 years.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The store sold matches, and bug spray, and aluminum foil.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The government removed the bugs when the war ended, but some wiring was left behind and is now on display at the museum, which opened as part of redevelopment by a property company.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

He said there should be an emphasis on "preserving natural field which provides habitat for insects, bugs, moths and caterpillars that need to incubate underground there."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

It has also given the world a taste of what hacking might look like in the age of powerful AI tools that can find never-before-seen software bugs and exploit them at astonishing speeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

It’s been a tough time for gold bugs over recent months, but are things about to get better?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Sometimes, though, they would hang around what would have been their bus stop if they had one, smoking cigars and starting fights and telling little kids that the bus was full of bugs.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

Now it has become a museum called Trent Park House of Secrets, which highlights the role of the team of German speakers, most of them Jewish refugees, who transcribed titbits from the prisoners' bugged conversations.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

My department chairman intervened, and I avoided arrest—though a student later told me my apartment was likely bugged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

But increasingly, I find myself getting bugged by a lot of things, no matter how trivial they are in the grand scheme.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

His Mercedes car was bugged and the gang's phones were tapped by police in a 15-month investigation called Operation Chess.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025

Rondell looked at me with his eyes all bugged.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

Nature-loving travelers from around the globe are bugging out over the fireflies, descending en masse on isolated stretches of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

An audio bugging device left by MI5 recorded the whole thing.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

“What is bugging me is I think our voter rolls may be more accurate than this database,” Phillips said.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2026

A spokesperson for ANL has previously said it had "denied under oath that its journalists had commissioned or obtained information derived from phone hacking, phone tapping, bugging, computer or email hacking or burglary to order".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

“But it was bugging me so bad that I knew the right answer but accidentally got it wrong.”

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone