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: a wingless bloodsucking hemipterous bug (especially Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
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In the secondhand-furniture ecosystem of New York, there’s the rarefied tier of antiques and vintage furniture, with designer pedigrees and period markings, and then there’s the one where most of us operate, looking for something workable, decent, and free of bedbugs.
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Lindy Segal, Curbed, 18 Sep. 2024
The association went on to say bedbugs can be transported anywhere in luggage and clothing.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
The lawsuit also argues that the hotel did not train its workers to inspect rooms for bedbugs and management overseeing the bedbug infestations did not put proper policies in place to make sure guests weren't exposed.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
Three former employees of the Yosemite Lodge, an Aramark-run midcentury motel where reservations start around $230 a night, say managers continued to book people in rooms where workers reported bedbugs.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 6 Aug. 2024
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Lindy Segal, Curbed, 18 Sep. 2024
The association went on to say bedbugs can be transported anywhere in luggage and clothing.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
The lawsuit also argues that the hotel did not train its workers to inspect rooms for bedbugs and management overseeing the bedbug infestations did not put proper policies in place to make sure guests weren't exposed.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
Three former employees of the Yosemite Lodge, an Aramark-run midcentury motel where reservations start around $230 a night, say managers continued to book people in rooms where workers reported bedbugs.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 6 Aug. 2024
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“Bedbug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedbug. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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bedbug
noun
bed·bug
ˈbed-ˌbəg 
: a wingless bloodsucking bug sometimes infesting houses and especially beds
Medical Definition
bedbug
noun
bed·bug
ˈbed-ˌbəg
: a wingless bloodsucking bug (Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
called also chinch
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