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  • present tense form of bucket (3rd person singular).
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buckets

NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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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

Their concerns fall mostly into two buckets: loss-of-control and human misuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

When you get to the end of each year, Chatzky said to look at the performance of each of the buckets and think about what you may need to move as the years go by.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Samantha Banner and her partner have been living without heating or hot water for most of her pregnancy, relying on washing in buckets filled with kettle-boiled water, camping showers, or travelling elsewhere.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

By now, the roads were filled with children swinging their fathers’ meal buckets and workers returning from saloons for the night shift.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros



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