bug
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That specific failure is a bug, but being comfortable with its possibility is a feature.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
It felt both meta and existential, or just an amusing bug.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The next day St Johnstone, decimated by a flu bug in the team, arrived at Ibrox to take on Rangers.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
But a seminar on aviation during that time gave him the bug for flying around the age of 19, just as India was developing what has become a booming industry for internal flights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
I had to wait for my mom here once when I came down with a stomach bug, and even feeling barfy with a bucket in my lap, waiting with her was kind of fun.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
Aurora told staff: “Oh yeah, bugs just crawl on me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Some of these vulnerabilities are not software bugs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
It said it has now patched the software bugs responsible for the mistakes.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“It was pretty much just fight bugs, fight reptiles,” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Next we tried all manner of bugs and vegetation.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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
His Mercedes car was bugged and the gang's phones were tapped by police in a 15-month investigation called Operation Chess.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
He inserted himself into the talks, arranging meetings in a bugged office building that allowed federal agents to record every word.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2025
Which bugged me, because that meant I couldn’t hang out with him anymore.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
“Everybody’s been bugging me about this one thing: ‘Would you do me a favor?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Nature-loving travelers from around the globe are bugging out over the fireflies, descending en masse on isolated stretches of the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
I’m like, “I have a headphone in my ear and I’m really busy working. You’re kind of bugging me right now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 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
All those weird moments that had been bugging him since second period suddenly made sense.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
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