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bugs

[buhgz] / bʌgz /
NOUN
vermin
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Thanks to AI, hackers will be able to leverage those bugs more quickly than ever before.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

They don’t have any natural predators and have a big web that is able to capture a diverse range of prey, including beetles, wasps and stink bugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The spiders benefit humans by acting as natural pest control, eating mosquitoes, biting flies and invasive stink bugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Anthropic is taking steps to arm some of the world’s biggest technology companies with tools to find and patch bugs in their hardware and software.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

A whippoorwill called from the distance, bugs dive-bombed my ears, and I stood in the middle of Grandpa Jimmy’s alfalfa field, stalks up to my elbows.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith