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  • plural of bucket.
  • present tense form of bucket (3rd person singular).
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buckets

NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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Racking up buckets of saves sent Billy Wagner and Trevor Hoffman to the Hall of Fame and turned flamethrowers like Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams and Eric “Game Over” Gagne into cult figures.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

The buckets are gathered back in the car park and the crop is carefully placed in a barrel of cool seawater to be taken for processing.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Clients often hear financial planners talk in terms of designating different buckets of money to organize a portfolio.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

“It mostly came down to using shovels and buckets and hands, things like that,” Espy said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

The first person in line scooped out water into pails, pots, and buckets, then passed it down.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate



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