bug
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Cyber researchers regularly participate in bug bounty programs, which stress-test major companies’ digital infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
At the beginning of the year, the rotation bore the brunt of the injury bug, with left-hander Blake Snell and right-hander Tyler Glasnow missing months of the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The scene where Harris approached a captured bug, rocking an ankle-length black trench coat with his blonde hair in a close crew cut, was the closest “Troopers” came to clubbing the audience in the ribs.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
“I imagine there’s some sort of glitch or bug that’s blasting all your followers when you use similar captions,” they surmised.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
It was the biggest bug I’d ever seen, bigger than two giant pink erasers stuck together.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
In their report, OIG inspectors said they found immigrants held at the facility had to use showers infested with small bugs and were only allowed to do so three times a week.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
One of the bugs wasn’t publicly known and it was serious, known as a zero-day vulnerability in cybersecurity parlance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"Then we went to put in the second model, and it took a couple of days. The testing was easier, and there were far fewer bugs," he said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
“I did a lot with VoiceOver, fixing bugs on it and helping it integrate with other apps,” Eves said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
I’ve had bugs scurry their way across my arms, and it’s not a good feeling.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
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
His Mercedes car was bugged and the gang's phones were tapped by police in a 15-month investigation called Operation Chess.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
It was a grisly sight, and Mary Alice’s eyes bugged.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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“Everybody’s been bugging me about this one thing: ‘Would you do me a favor?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
Now, she claimed a senior reporter had tasked investigators with phone-tapping and bugging to get information for stories.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 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
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