bug
noun
a hemipterous insect.
had bugged
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past perfectof bug.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Perlasca was led to believe the Vatican prosecutors had bugged the table and were recording their conversation, though no recording has materialized.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
There, Rachel’s Mercedes — which he had bugged with a tracking device that detectives found afterward, according to a police report — stood empty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2020
A previous version of this review incorrectly said that author Thomas Rid wrote that the claim that the NSA had bugged Angela Merkel’s cell phone was “apparently false.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2020
Years later, after reading his own Stasi file, he learned that special commandos had bugged his home, updating the technology whenever he was on holiday with his family.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
About half of the Vigilantes, businessmen who belonged to one or another of the volunteer companies had bugged out for their fire stations already.
From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper
