bugged
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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
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
“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
"What I do understand is that being a nuclear power plant worker, her phone is likely to be bugged," Yeva tells me.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025
It bugged Emma that Natalie had been at the Greystones’ house without Chess, Emma, and Finn.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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