bucket
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Celtic couldn't throw a bucket of water in Rangers' direction not to mind a tempest.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
You set your spending from the cash bucket, refill it with fixed-income yields, and then buy new fixed-income products with the sale of stock.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The team is fined $30 million, a drop in the bucket to the owner who, with other executives, got suspended for up to a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Trading apps have replaced bucket shops, but Wall Street abounds with eerie parallels to 1901.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Most folks can’t take silence for more than a few ticks on the clock, and they start trying to fill it like an empty bucket.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Their concerns fall mostly into two buckets: loss-of-control and human misuse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“This is the most behavioral-finance approach,” Chatzky said — because when there’s turmoil, you have enough in the cash and fixed-income buckets that you don’t have to touch your stocks for 10 years.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Volunteer firefighters were using "whatever we have. Sometimes we use buckets, and even those aren't enough", said Yonas, adding that the teams were also in need of food and protective gear, including masks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
That morning in May, Mamta waited beside the handpump as other families filled their buckets, three empty plastic containers at her feet.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Because I’d like to sink buckets the way you did. Tell me again how you did it? Is it like carbo-loading before a marathon?”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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
It’s outside, waiting to be bucketed, lifted inside, and decorated with paper chains and berries.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
