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buckets

NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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A growing cadre of volunteers increasingly helps with the next step, the actual harvest, scooping acorns off the ground and into bags and buckets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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

“This is the most behavioral-finance approach,” Chatzky said — because when there’s turmoil, you have enough in the cash and fixed-income buckets that you don’t have to touch your stocks for 10 years.

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

Twig’s dad is a banker in New York and makes buckets of money.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller



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