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“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

I have no idea what children will make of a movie with as many semi-serious gags about extortionate legal bills as silly ones where a spider mugs a bug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Yardeni: Yes, absolutely, though I have never been a gold bug and am honestly clueless when it comes to valuing something with no coupon or dividend.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Worse, the “don’t touch it” mentality allowed forest overgrowth, bug infestations and fuel buildup that have fed cataclysmic fires—with all the attendant consequences for habitat, resources and scenery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

“Yep. The little guy seemed kind of lonely in the kennel, so I made a sling for him out of one of my old T-shirts last night. See? Snug as a bug in a rug.”

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

The Environmental Protection Agency says the bugs, which are largely harmless, will leave eventually.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

The research adds to growing interest in a strategy known as "bugs as drugs."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

While the cases are spread out, scientists used a type of comprehensive genetic fingerprinting called whole-genome sequencing, which revealed the bugs involved are all closely related.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Seconds later, we were sitting in the yard watching the chickens peck for corn and bugs.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

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

Pearl’s eyes bugged, and she went an ugly beet-red.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

An audio bugging device left by MI5 recorded the whole thing.

From BBC ● May 7, 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

In tears, she said it was "deeply hurtful" to read the statement of a private investigator who allegedly admitted, in her words to the court on Thursday, "bugging and listening to all my conversations."

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

If she doesn’t quit bugging me, I’m gonna ask Mr. Ward to change my seat.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes