bug

We formed the Earwigs, after the bug, and wore Beatle wigs, our track outfits and sunglasses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

Ali envisions someday performing as the bug in the desert in the Middle East and maybe building a children’s public playground as a “fun manifestation” of the project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Instead, what the England all-rounder thought was a "tummy bug" turned out to be appendicitis.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Testing a computer program for bugs, it turns out, is almost indistinguishable from checking a formal mathematical proof for possible errors—which is precisely what ITPs do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

The organisation says that warm and dry weather has produced "ideal conditions" for the bugs, with as much as 30% of the UK crop between now and the end of October set to be wasted.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Birds darted through the air, chirping as they chased bugs with open beaks.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

“Oh, I bugged everybody from my siblings and neighbors. And I’d kick it with anybody that wanted to give me some attention,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

He dated actress Amber Heard, giving her Teslas as gifts, but she later worried they were bugged, because she said he was "controlling."

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025

Her eyes bugged out and her scream was so high- pitched it was silent.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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

After that, I started bugging my dad to let me get behind the wheel of his truck.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles