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Barnard, who's from Norwich, says the driving bug was passed down from his father, who was a karting driver in his younger years.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

And at a time when nostalgia is driving much of TV programming, the style’s familiarity may be a feature, not a bug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Desborough said it had been Coleman who convinced him to use Aquilino's bank card and the "bug out list" found in his cabin was also tied to Coleman.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

“It lasts much longer than a stomach bug where you’re sick for a day and you bounce back.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

A bug scuttles by and I snap it up.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

After years of clumsy performance, AI models had a breakthrough moment last fall, when they became noticeably better at finding bugs and passing hacking-benchmarking tests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

He said there should be an emphasis on "preserving natural field which provides habitat for insects, bugs, moths and caterpillars that need to incubate underground there."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

It’s been a tough time for gold bugs over recent months, but are things about to get better?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

I did every dirty job there was: I cleaned outhouses and strained bugs out of cisterns.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

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

The music was meant to cover their conversation, in case the room was bugged by Soviet spies.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

Now, she claimed a senior reporter had tasked investigators with phone-tapping and bugging to get information for stories.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

“Whatever it is that’s bugging you,” she says, “it’s about a guy, right?”

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead