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bucket

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

Analysts say that’s a drop in the bucket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Cloud-seeding technology may be a drop in the bucket, as it doesn't create rainstorms.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“We bucket cash in three ways,” Driscoll said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Breakfast? she asked, sending an image of her bucket of milk, along with her question feeling.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Fast-forward four years: I had nurtured nine baby giant sequoias that were now outgrowing their large plastic buckets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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

Everything fits in three shipping containers, which are moisture-controlled with buckets of silica gel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Funds could not be used for legal or defense purposes or to repay personal loans, nor could they be pulled from education, transportation or public safety buckets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

James arrives with two buckets of water hanging from either end of a yoke balanced across his shoulders.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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

It’s outside, waiting to be bucketed, lifted inside, and decorated with paper chains and berries.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

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

I arrived in the morning that day, and I remember it was bucketing down.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro


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