bucket
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Victor Medina, founder of Palante Wealth Advisors, works with his clients to create buckets of funds, including a “great life” bucket for things like travel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Sparks pulled ahead in the fourth, but Phoenix tied it 81-81 with 3:33 remaining after a bucket from the Mercury’s top scorer Noémie Brochant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Ferrand-Prevot, perched near-upright with an awkward-fitting aero helmet, looked as if she was trying to catch the French wind with a mop bucket and a pillowcase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Wales fans made a lasting impression in France, with their distinctive bucket hats and chant of 'Don't Take Me Home', which became an unofficial anthem of the Euros.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
And the pretty lady looked like she needed a bucket.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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Despite social media evidence to the contrary, Painter pleads he is "not always the culprit" when it comes to the pouring of ice buckets.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
His job hauling buckets of sewage from the latrines was no fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Donations to colleges fall into two buckets: those for general use and those restricted to a specific purpose by the benefactor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
And as predictably as the tides, a wine-dark sea of merch has risen up around the release: T-shirts, videogames, souvenir popcorn buckets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Chase had filled not one but two buckets with chips and had the stove fire roaring.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Race organiser Duncan Smith said: "It's been a brilliant day with fantastic weather, after three years when it's absolutely bucketed down with rain."
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
“I think we need a more personalized approach for each individual in determining when they should actually start screening—not this bucketed start age,” Bea says.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023
He said the Fed would revisit how firms were bucketed by size when it came to supervision and regulation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Any captured water is bucketed to toilets for flushing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2018
I bucketed Rocinante out of California by the shortest possible route—one I knew well from the old days of the 1930s.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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A fourth person, the pilot of a helicopter helping with "bucketing" operations, died after a crash in the neighbouring Alberta province last week.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2023
Choosing value-based strategies, dividend stocks and bucketing approaches can help you navigate several market scenarios, Saglimbene said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022
“The water was still thigh-high at 7 a.m. and those who parked their cars in the streets were in panic because their vehicles were submerged … Other residents were bucketing out water from their homes.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
“Generally the tiered model is a great approach and some of their general bucketing makes a lot of logical sense,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
I arrived in the morning that day, and I remember it was bucketing down.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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