bucket
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The superstar said he wanted the rookie to remember his first NBA bucket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
I will always remember an elderly lady in Bootle, Merseyside, who had just collected her pension and insisted on putting £20 in a collection bucket as we walked down the north west coast.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The 23-year-old made a barf bucket out of a shower panel and wooden rings, which she stapled together and painted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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
Gloria and Ramona are each able to carry one bucket on their shoulder and another on their arm.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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The facility is stocked with a 2,400-pound pallet of ice, 15-pound buckets of isomalt, a humidity-resistant sugar substitute, and 500 pounds of dark chocolate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
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
Neighbors line up in the same spot, marking their place with tanks, buckets and jerrycans.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
He pulled out his phone and recorded himself dumping fat streams of quarters into collection buckets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Flowers, greens, and buckets forgotten, we ran across the prairie, joined at the hands and wobbling like an unwieldy snake.
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
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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For much of Saturday afternoon, the skies above Charlotte were a dirty shade of grey, the rain bucketing down, the wind blowing hard, thunder and lightning seen and heard every minute or so.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
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
He was glad they hadn’t waited for the rain to come bucketing down; it was slippery enough as it was.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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