bucket
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Outside a nearby shack Linkie listens with interest as she cleans clothes in a large metal bucket.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
“It’s really a drop in the bucket when we’re talking about statewide human-wildlife conflicts,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
"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
You can’t bail out the ocean just by using a bigger bucket.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
One day I went to get a bucket of water and almost cried when I noticed that our well was going dry.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
Mushroom-pickers, who carry their wares in bright plastic buckets strapped to their backs, wait outside behind a folding gate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 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
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
We help her balance the yoke across her shoulders and lift the buckets of water.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
“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
"The rain was horrendous. It literally bucketed down," said parish council vice-chairman Mike Palmer.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2021
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
