Example Sentences

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Browntail moths are the source of an ongoing outbreak in Maine that has bugged the state since 2015.

From Fox News • Feb. 7, 2022

But all week, one thing about this story has bugged me: doesn’t Davis have a lawyer?

From MSNBC • Sep. 5, 2015

This week, disclosures suggest the American intelligence services may be up to broadly similar tricks – with reports that the United States has bugged the communications of European diplomats stationed in Washington.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2013

The only thing that has bugged me about this season so far has been the constant reshuffling at the bottom of the roster and on the practice squad.

From Chicago Tribune • Nov. 7, 2012

Last week the German magazine Der Spiegel reported that the Mossad has bugged US Secretary of State John Kerry’s phone conversations with Palestinian leaders.

From Newsweek