bugging
Example Sentences
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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
“What is bugging me is I think our voter rolls may be more accurate than this database,” Phillips said.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2026
Now, she claimed a senior reporter had tasked investigators with phone-tapping and bugging to get information for stories.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026
It says it has "denied under oath that its journalists had commissioned or obtained information derived from phone-hacking, phone-tapping, bugging, computer or email-hacking or burglary to order."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
For a while it sounded like old times with me playing chauffeur and you bugging me from the backseat.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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