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bug

[buhg] / bʌg /
NOUN
bacterium, microorganism
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VERB
listen to without permission
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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

The negative mental-health impact of social media isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Her crippling impostor syndrome was a feature, not a bug — we were stuck there with her for at least two seasons.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

“While advancements in biomechanics and technology have significantly improved our understanding of pitching mechanics and performance optimization,” Mr. Friedman writes, “the injury bug remains elusive.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

I scratched at one of my thousand bug bites.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

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

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

The next morning, she woke up to a "horrible realisation", feeling itchy with red lumps over her body and blood spots smeared on the bedding — the tell-tale signs of bed bugs, she said.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

The government removed the bugs when the war ended, but some wiring was left behind and is now on display at the museum, which opened as part of redevelopment by a property company.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Mr. Kneale could have added to his list of creatures with which Floridians are willing to coexist: sharks, raccoons, armadillos, possums, rattlesnakes and bugs of every variety.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The forest sounds echo in my gully—but not life, just bugs or a bird passing over.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

She told documentary makers: "I think that bugged me more than anything. It was never reported correctly at all. I was not a 'friend'."

From BBC Jul. 29, 2025

Something bugged me about what we were up to along the river, but it seemed worse not to just go with the flow with the guys.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

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

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

I said, and looked down the road but he must have been off bugging other people.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos




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