bucket
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Times’ ”101 Best California Experiences” zine, a traveler’s bucket list highlighting my top destinations throughout my four decades of traveling the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
With the ratio of workers to retirees shrinking, the temptation to reach for the largest bucket of money becomes irresistible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
For clients who like to pick stocks, advisers may designate a “play money” bucket.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Essex fan Nigel Warner recently completed a bucket list ambition of visiting all four Grand Slam tournaments and agrees Wimbledon is the best.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Ratwin launched herself overboard to catch fish, eventually filling a bucket, each fish bearing a small set of tooth marks.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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It’s particularly important for retirement savers to read the tea leaves on CD rates because so many people have cash buckets set up to fund their living expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
“It mostly came down to using shovels and buckets and hands, things like that,” Espy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
A group of volunteers passes buckets of rubble from hand to hand in long lines.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Each member of the company promised to bring to a fire six water buckets and two linen bags to rescue property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The custodian’s name is Mrs. Krajewska, and she warms to me as soon as she realizes I’m not put off by water buckets and outdoor toilets.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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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
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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
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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