bucket
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Knight has said it had always been on his "bucket list" to write a Bond film, adding that he felt he was "doing my duty for King and country" by joining the franchise.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
“Twenty-eight out of 23 million registered voters in California is just … a drop in the bucket numerically,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
Morgan credit-strategy report dated Oct 16 noted that the CCC bucket of the high-yield bond index has contracted to a record low 8.6%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Analysts say that’s a drop in the bucket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
If we were slow with the bucket it would be kalte kost.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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As residents demanded a return to normal water supply at one protest last month, AFP saw a police officer filling up buckets they had brought to Nongsa Digital Park.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Fast-forward four years: I had nurtured nine baby giant sequoias that were now outgrowing their large plastic buckets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Maykel Aguilar, 30, patiently filled a 200-liter tank and several buckets at a pipe connected to a spring on a street in the capital's old town.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
The company is pushing sandwiches, wings and tenders to diversify away from its traditional bone-in buckets of chicken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
People shouted back and forth, opening stalls, grabbing buckets and ropes.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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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
In the silver chill of the Maine afternoon, as I bucketed and lumbered over the pitted surface of a wood road, I saw four lady mooses moving with stately heaviness across my bow.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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The helicopter pilot, 41, was helping with "bucketing" operations, in which specialised buckets suspended by cables are used to douse fires, officials said.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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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