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Worse, the “don’t touch it” mentality allowed forest overgrowth, bug infestations and fuel buildup that have fed cataclysmic fires—with all the attendant consequences for habitat, resources and scenery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

"Once you get the bug, you just have to keep going, because it's stuff that's never been seen since it was buried."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

I scratched at one of my thousand bug bites.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

The research adds to growing interest in a strategy known as "bugs as drugs."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Forever, the strategy for fishing with artificial lures has been to “match the hatch”—to replicate the baitfish, bugs and other prey that fish snack on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

“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

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

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

The couple kept close tabs on their permit applications and bugged Los Angeles County when they felt things weren’t moving fast enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

He noticed that many directors kept a personal mobile phone as well as a work phone, because they feared the Harrods phone might be bugged.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

Eddie’s eyes nearly bugged out of his skull.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

Mr Brilliant believes he was not immune to Al Fayed’s extensive use of bugging and surveillance, carried out by the Harrods owner’s large team of security guards.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

It’s like whatever is circling around in my head bugging me just flies out in the wind and gets left behind on the track.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée