- present tense form of bug (3rd person singular).
bugs
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of bugs
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Fresh off the heels of Thom Browne’s New York Fashion Week presentation, where models and dancers embodied bugs and butterflies, the designer exchanged emails with Tyler Matthew Oyer about his creative process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
While vast clouds of flying bugs might not be everyone's cup of tea, scientists have been delighted to find that the Bogongs are back.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The program called Lean was built to detect bugs in Microsoft’s products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It said it has now patched the software bugs responsible for the mistakes.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
I stood in our new yard, not brown now but lit gray-blue from the full moon, and I listened to the nighttime chorus of singing toads and bugs.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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