bucket
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"I have drinking water but I do not have water for my toilet," he said, saying he had to use a bucket to pull water up through the window to his second-floor apartment.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
“It was at the top of my bucket list.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
Just then Papa came in from doing his chores, carrying a bucket of milk.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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A growing cadre of volunteers increasingly helps with the next step, the actual harvest, scooping acorns off the ground and into bags and buckets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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
The family initially boiled kettles to fill up buckets to wash and clean the dishes, but they've now invested in a camping shower.
From BBC ● 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
Richard, James, and I spend the afternoon bringing buckets of water from the river to dump on the tiny new shoots.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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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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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
They spent the next night and early morning bucketing out sewage and stormwater that had overflowed from the basement toilet and shower, rushed in through the sump pump and seeped in through the foundation.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Even for players who seem well documented, bucketing their records along with the rest of the major leagues struggles to capture the objective history people seek in statistics.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2020
Well, at least it was better than bucketing rain, Victor thought as he pulled his hat down over his face.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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