bug
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That specific failure is a bug, but being comfortable with its possibility is a feature.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
In 2017, British Airways apologised to a family travelling from Vancouver to London, after they were left covered in bug bites from an overnight flight.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
It felt both meta and existential, or just an amusing bug.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
But a seminar on aviation during that time gave him the bug for flying around the age of 19, just as India was developing what has become a booming industry for internal flights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
If that bug wants to keep doing the same thing over and over and over and over till it dies, go ahead.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
Aurora told staff: “Oh yeah, bugs just crawl on me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Some of these vulnerabilities are not software bugs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The cancellations took place on mainline routes after the bugs were spotted on 22 September.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The program called Lean was built to detect bugs in Microsoft’s products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“A growing boy can’t grow on this,” she said, holding up the offending bowl like it was full of bugs and not cereal.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
They knew every room was bugged, every driver was an informant, every bit of luggage was open to query.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
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
His agency-provided apartment comes bugged and his movements are tracked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024
Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance told podcaster Joe Rogan on Thursday that he bugged out from a game of mini-golf after he heard of Donald Trump's assassination attempt.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
His eyes bugged and his mouth hanging open.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
Plus, U.S. airstrikes are failing to stop the global cocaine boom, and a Saudi national is charged with bugging OpenAI’s office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
He drove Liyana, Rafik, Khaled, and Nadine on the descending road through sand dunes toward Jericho because Rafik had been bugging him so much.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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