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
We formed the Earwigs, after the bug, and wore Beatle wigs, our track outfits and sunglasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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
She stamped both her feet for emphasis, as if trying to squash an elusive bug.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Some of these vulnerabilities are not software bugs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Mr. de Moura’s initial goal was mundane: to create a computer program that would find hidden bugs in Microsoft’s products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Bats are invaluable in agriculture, gorging on pests that target crops — corn earworms, brown stink bugs, cucumber beetles and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“It was pretty much just fight bugs, fight reptiles,” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The big metal pots sat on the counter covered with muslin cloth to keep the bugs off while it cooled.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
They knew every room was bugged, every driver was an informant, every bit of luggage was open to query.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
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
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
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
Anansi, who bugged the sky god Nyame into giving him the first stories, and whose legend grew as his tales spread.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Plus, U.S. airstrikes are failing to stop the global cocaine boom, and a Saudi national is charged with bugging OpenAI’s office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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
“What is bugging me is I think our voter rolls may be more accurate than this database,” Phillips said.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2026
A spokesperson for ANL has previously said it had "denied under oath that its journalists had commissioned or obtained information derived from phone hacking, phone tapping, bugging, computer or email hacking or burglary to order".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
Finally, we give up trying and I say, “What’s bugging you today?”
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
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