bug
noun
a hemipterous insect.
have bugged
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present perfectof bug.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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All left early in last Sunday’s game against the Chargers with injuries that have bugged them for a little while — McDougald a knee, Fluker a calf and Carson a hip.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2018
"Many judges like to ask questions ... things that have bugged them or bothered them during the trial."
From US News ● Aug. 6, 2014
Note the date: Thursday 19 June 2003, eight years before the News of the World was shown to have bugged Milly Dowler's phone.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
They have bugged penguins with radio transmitters and shadowed them by jet with airborne infrared sensors that could detect a birds' body heat at a distance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2010
I described the hinge that never quite fastened, the edges that didn’t line up, and the paint that dried a little bumpy—so many imperfections that usually would have bugged me but didn’t.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
