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bucket

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

Without hot water, she had to wash using a bucket.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

He said the team have already collected "five big bucket loads" of litter which he said "covered half the distance" of the town's promenade.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Leonard gets fined $700,000, also a drop in the bucket for someone who should also have been suspended.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

I swallowed hard and ignored the fact that the thought made my stomach feel like I’d swallowed a bucket of live snakes.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

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

Carrying three empty plastic buckets, she walked a few hundred metres to the nearest handpump in her village in Jalaun district, in the drought-prone Bundelkhand region of northern India.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Victor Medina, founder of Palante Wealth Advisors, works with his clients to create buckets of funds, including a “great life” bucket for things like travel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

I took my buckets to the fountain, headed to the end of the line, and joined my neighbors in their fight.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

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

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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