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buggy

[buhg-ee] / ˈbʌg i /
ADJECTIVE
crazy
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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But OpenAI’s back-end infrastructure has at times struggled to keep up with demand and some ad executives said the system remains buggy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Rejecting AI is like picking a horse and buggy over a car, said “Star Wars” creator George Lucas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

Upside: You can use it to get out of buggy Fourth of July parties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Thomas and two others took "the walking wounded" to get help in their farm buggy.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

He turned that buggy around and he drove it back the way we’d come.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant

That’s well within the average 31-mile range of the electrified tundra buggies deployed by wildlife tour company Frontiers North Adventures, with 5-foot high wheels that can tackle rugged and boggy terrain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

“At the turn of the 20th century, people were still in horses and buggies … they didn’t likely envision that there’d be an automobile to replace a buggy. But that’s what happened,” Cohen said.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

To the south lie the Bureau of Land Management’s Imperial Sand Dunes, where dune buggies and motorcycles trace arcs across bare slopes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Under the current deal, nearly 700 law enforcement officers are on the ground patrolling beaches, using drones and buggies to stop people getting on boats.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

The news of the wonderful pig spread clear up into the hills, and farmers came rattling down in buggies and buckboards, to stand hour after hour at Wilbur’s pen admiring the miraculous animal.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

Because the app would not be publicly available anymore, new updates could no longer be delivered to users in the US - which would make the app buggier and, eventually, unusable.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2025

We will just have a much worse, much buggier Instagram on our hands.

From The Verge ● Aug. 20, 2022

The Off Broadway dress was problematic enough, but the fancier Broadway version, operated by a stage manager with a garage-door opener, is even buggier.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

Men assume that if their wives don’t love them enough, it must be because they are buggier than a flophouse blanket.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2018

And it’s partly that Siri itself often seemed even buggier and laggier on the Watch than it is on the iPhone.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2017

Armed with the information in the April 18 news article “Answers to the buggiest questions on Brood X cicadas,” I feel prepared to deal with the upcoming invasion.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2021

That officially makes iOS 8, thus far, the buggiest iOS yet.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2014

Just two years ago, nearly half of the folks online used Internet Explorer 6.0—the slowest, buggiest, most security-flawed browser on the market.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2010




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