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Whether it is nuclear power, the global population explosion, cyberhackers or the Y2K bug, most doomsday scenarios have not played out because people, governments and corporations adjust and fix problems as they emerge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The scene where Harris approached a captured bug, rocking an ankle-length black trench coat with his blonde hair in a close crew cut, was the closest “Troopers” came to clubbing the audience in the ribs.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

They are doing this in a range of ways from planting trees and growing vegetables, to leading bug hunts and rediscovering nature.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

“I imagine there’s some sort of glitch or bug that’s blasting all your followers when you use similar captions,” they surmised.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

The warrior who had snatched her looked down at her as though she were a bug.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

They tried to exploit a pair of bugs that could have allowed it to publish new versions of existing RubyGems’ files that belonged to other users, the AI researchers said in their report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

August is peak season for the bugs in L.A., she said, citing data from iNaturalist, a citizen science app.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Dad and I move toward and away from the shelves, like hopping bugs, trying to make a buffer of space between us and other shoppers.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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

But increasingly, I find myself getting bugged by a lot of things, no matter how trivial they are in the grand scheme.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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

KGB observers bugged CIA agents' phones and cataloged their daily routines.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

An audio bugging device left by MI5 recorded the whole thing.

From BBC ● May 7, 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

But King’s resume, which would stretch from one end of Wimbledon’s Center Court to the other and keep going, is missing one thing, and that was bugging her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025

That question has been bugging me since Sunday.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas