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Recent Examples of bug
Noun
Julien Baker and Torres have been bit by the country bug. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025 Pet peeves: Teeth grinding, bugs that buzz, Beyonce haters, Harry Potter haters. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
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But since joining the Twins before the 2023 season on a three-year contract, Vázquez hasn’t been the same hitter, and it’s bugged him. Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024 But after all the weight loss, there were still things that still bugged Russell. Brenda Goodman, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bug 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bug
Noun
  • Where needing help is for losers and providing it is for suckers.
    Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The president has long maintained that this order disadvantages the United States by saddling it with the burden of policing the globe and enabling its allies to play it for a sucker.
    Ivo H. Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • If the situation worsens, companies may have to source oranges from countries even farther abroad, such as Spain, Italy, Turkey, and India, where the disease is less pronounced.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The research revealed not only how this system is altered by the disease, but also found distinctive breathing patterns in affected individuals.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • How did the character of Joel—who is not a straightforward psychopath, if there is such a thing—come to you?
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2025
  • As 40,000 acres burn, animals are incinerated alive and the human death toll rises, only a psychopath would look for advantage.
    Sabrina Haake, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • At first, he is annoyed by mundane details like listening to the same song or ordering the same breakfast.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Though visibly annoyed, the driver asked the OP to move.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The devil will persist in bothering Martin Luther until the bald-headed monk dispatches him by hurling a bottle of ink.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Imagine if the press covered all of that without bothering to even question it.
    Jeremy Gruber, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The film has become an event, a must-see for movie lovers.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Baldoni specifically alleged that Lively used her friendship with Swift to put pressure on him to comply with Lively’s re-write of a crucial scene in the domestic violence drama in which Lively and Baldoni play lovers.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • More news: Browns' Myles Garrett Speaks Out Following Shocking Trade Request Landon Dickerson and Cam Jurgens were both listed as full participants, which is huge news considering both were dealing with ailments leading into the NFC Championship game.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Details of the characters’ psychologies — Belle’s impulse to fake an ailment whenever she’s threatened, or Milla’s doubling down on pseudoscience to protect herself from facing mortality — are introduced, underlined, and then hammered over repeatedly.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The greasier the better, Chen says (but people with sensitive skin should avoid olive oil, which can be irritating).
    Matt Fuchs, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
  • One woman on TikTok has gone viral after describing how her brother still finds ways to irritate her—even from a distance.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025

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“Bug.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bug. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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