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bucket

[buhk-it] / ˈbʌk ɪt /
NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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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

“I had to make a conscious shift in what that bucket of money was for, and moved it from a housing fund to now a business fund,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Is there anything else on your bucket list?

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

“No animal did that,” Tansy said, handing me the bucket.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

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

It was repetitive work; the muscles in his arms and lower back twinged as he stooped over and over to pass off refilled buckets and pick up empty ones.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

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

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

Others hunted for hidden petrol and ship oil pockets, bucketing out the valuable fluid.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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