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bug

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

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A stomach bug that caused him to lose a considerable amount of weight put Betts behind last spring, and he never quite caught up.

From Los Angeles Times

Worse, this is a feature, not a bug.

From The Wall Street Journal

It seemed too, I don’t know, fluffy to describe a time-traveling criminal the same way you describe a really pretty bug.

From Literature

"But biological systems are more ambiguous than we give them credit to be and that ambiguity is actually a feature -- it's not a bug."

From Science Daily

Hold the bubbly, gold bugs: U.S. stocks overall, including Berkshire Hathaway, have trounced gold.

From The Wall Street Journal