bug
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The team developed an AI-based controller that allows the robotic bug to perform demanding aerial maneuvers, including repeated body flips.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
"The impressive western conifer seed bug is here as is the box bug," she added.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The researchers had access to a special version of Claude Opus 4.8, made available to qualified cybersecurity practitioners, and they asked it to write code that would exploit this bug in a cyberattack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
She advised a customer about treating a bug bite, helped a man wire money and cajoled a city worker about getting a sidewalk repair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
“It ain’t no bug, man, unless it’s King Kong Bug.”
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
“It was pretty much just fight bugs, fight reptiles,” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
Foo said he doesn’t know how many years the orange-winged cicadas need to spend underground—he estimated between two and six—meaning next year’s bugs may be the offspring of adults from several years prior.
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
Finally, the beings of air, the many birds and winged bugs, flew into the crisp, salty air.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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
He dated actress Amber Heard, giving her Teslas as gifts, but she later worried they were bugged, because she said he was "controlling."
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
Mr Brilliant’s first suspicion that he may have been bugged came in 2002, shortly before he was fired.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
Mr. Peckleman’s eyes bugged out and he sneered.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
“Everybody’s been bugging me. They’re saying, ‘Would you do me a favor?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Everybody’s been bugging me about this one thing: ‘Would you do me a favor?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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
She insisted she was not in the least bit techy and was able to build her company after a lot of sleepless nights, research and "bugging people" who know about tech.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
You say, Excuse me— Why are you bugging me? he shouts.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
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