bug
noun
a hemipterous insect.
Example Sentences
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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
She told documentary makers: "I think that bugged me more than anything. It was never reported correctly at all. I was not a 'friend'."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
His agency-provided apartment comes bugged and his movements are tracked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024
The Russians had buoys out in the river for their boats and we’d row up, quiet as we could, beside them, then suddenly sing the national anthem—REAL LOUD—because everybody said those buoys were bugged.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
