bucket
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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
But, unlike the rust bucket Delano has become, it wasn’t abandoned either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Morgan credit-strategy report dated Oct 16 noted that the CCC bucket of the high-yield bond index has contracted to a record low 8.6%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
“It was at the top of my bucket list.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
If not for this bucket, well, I would be in even worse shape.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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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
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
Prisoners on kitchen detail lugged in great buckets of gruel made of wheat and peas, tasteless but nourishing.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“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
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
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The helicopter pilot, 41, was helping with "bucketing" operations, in which specialised buckets suspended by cables are used to douse fires, officials said.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023
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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