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bug

[buhg] / bʌg /
NOUN
bacterium, microorganism
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VERB
listen to without permission
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Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton likened the effects of a software bug that affected multiple cars before the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia to a "Lego race".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

While studying management to help his family's textile business, he attended an aviation seminar and caught what he later called the "aviation bug".

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

The rest are mounted on the walls and show the bug in places like Battambang and the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, at a restaurant, in a classroom, on a boat and a bridge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The team developed an AI-based controller that allows the robotic bug to perform demanding aerial maneuvers, including repeated body flips.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

I wanted to tell her I thought her bug was the coolest one I ever saw.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

While vast clouds of flying bugs might not be everyone's cup of tea, scientists have been delighted to find that the Bogongs are back.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Bats are invaluable in agriculture, gorging on pests that target crops — corn earworms, brown stink bugs, cucumber beetles and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“It was pretty much just fight bugs, fight reptiles,” he said.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

In their report, OIG inspectors said they found immigrants held at the facility had to use showers infested with small bugs and were only allowed to do so three times a week.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Dead-looking grapevines and blackbirds and junk piles and bugs, that’s it.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

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

She told documentary makers: "I think that bugged me more than anything. It was never reported correctly at all. I was not a 'friend'."

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025

Kadiatu cried as she gazed about the room, eyes bugged out with panic.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

“Everybody’s been bugging me about this one thing: ‘Would you do me a favor?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

As though rich people don’t know how to activate the block feature on their phones, and as though bugging them is the way to get them to do what you want.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

In tears, she said it was "deeply hurtful" to read the statement of a private investigator who allegedly admitted, in her words to the court on Thursday, "bugging and listening to all my conversations."

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

Meanwhile, I was busy bugging Dad for Mom’s car, which had been locked up in the garage for four years at that point and was only taken out for an occasional run.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King




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