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bucket

[buhk-it] / ˈbʌk ɪt /
NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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Those volumes represented a drop in the bucket compared with the global supply shortfall, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Knight has said it had always been on his "bucket list" to write a Bond film, adding that he felt he was "doing my duty for King and country" by joining the franchise.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 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

But, unlike the rust bucket Delano has become, it wasn’t abandoned either.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

I fetched a cup of the neem brew from the bucket and gave it to Ma.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

KFC has been trying to push sandwiches, wings and tenders to diversify away from its traditional bone-in buckets of chicken in a bid to revive its brand following years of declining sales and closures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The 36-year-old tower crane operator in Nashville, Tenn., who works 12-hour shifts, helps lift and move rebar and buckets of concrete from a perch often hundreds of feet in the air.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Maykel Aguilar, 30, patiently filled a 200-liter tank and several buckets at a pipe connected to a spring on a street in the capital's old town.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Kids are running up and down the wet sand chasing geese, while the younger ones seat themselves in the sand, buckets and shovels in hand.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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 let Charley out, and suddenly an angry streak of gray burned across the clearing in the pines and bucketed into the house.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

“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

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

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi


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