bus
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Her plan would include making permanent the priority bus lane network being developed for the Olympics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Nottinghamshire Police said the officer had approached two suspects at a bus stop in Angel Row shortly before 04:50 BST on Sunday.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Both have spoken about the need to expand Metro’s rail and bus network and agree that buses, especially, are the backbone to the city’s system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
"I've put forward a number of different alternative ways for the authorities or government to take control of bus services if that's what they want to do," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
You step outside right as your bus pulls away, leaving a black cloud suspended in the air.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Both have spoken about the need to expand Metro’s rail and bus network and agree that buses, especially, are the backbone to the city’s system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Passengers who play loud music on buses in England could be fined up to £100 under an attempt by the government to crack down on antisocial behaviour.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Los Angeles has some of the lowest public transit fares in the country with a regular one-way ticket on both Metro buses and rail lines costing $1.75.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
They needed to lower the carriageway by around 16 inches to let standard double-decker buses pass under the bridges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Chase watched her stamp back to the curb and the waiting buses.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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After graduating from college, Batter moves to New York, where he folds shirts at the Gap and busses tables at a restaurant named Just Okay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Long before cars were common and busses were running, residents still got around on the backs of their horse carts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“What moderates are worried about is not just the ideas that he has run on like free busses and, you know, grocery stores, that kind of thing,” Bennett said.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
Most of the Afghan nationals were brought to the centers in rickety busses, some of them handcuffed.
From Reuters ● Nov. 1, 2023
No busses to get on or traveling to do.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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Others have bused to airports in Bahrain and Qatar to both exit and enter the kingdom.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Passengers make their way through normal security in Dubai to a gate further back in the airport, then get bused across the tarmac to walk aboard the plane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
In August 2024, Novo Nordisk bused its employees to the sprawling Roskilde fairgrounds outside Copenhagen for its annual summer party.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Once they were registered, the families with their bags and their pets were bused to Lozova station, to board a long train heading for Lviv in western Ukraine.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
The Drones and their guests were bused in two gaily colored buses.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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“Sound of Freedom” had church groups busing to theaters to watch the movie in hordes.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
Robert Docter, an L.A. school board member in the 1970s who successfully pushed to end corporal punishment and who sacrificed his political career trying to integrate campuses through busing, has died at 97.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Working long hours doing a bit of everything—right down to busing tables—Meyer ate one at the end of almost every lunch shift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Daryl, 42, a self-described conservative, lived in several Southern communities as a child, including Charlotte, North Carolina, in the mid-1980s as the city wrestled with its court-ordered school busing program.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2025
A few years ago, they started busing students in from all over the city.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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Evacuees from surrounding villages were bussed in to shelter in sports halls around the capital.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
So, I would spend summers being bussed out or sleeping out at cousins and grandparents and aunts and uncles’ houses to work on the farm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
At the school where the Lions are based in the Melbourne suburbs, rugby posts had to be bussed in so the tourists could train.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Instead, they were taken by military plane directly to Panama, did not go through customs upon arrival and were immediately detained in the hotel until they were bussed to the camp.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2025
Ignatius bent down and lightly bussed her on the cheek.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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For much of the week, Lira is either in the kitchen working as a prep cook or in the dining room bussing tables.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
Under US diplomatic pressure, Mexico has been conducting its largest ever migrant crackdown, bussing and flying non-Mexican migrants to the country's south, far from the US border.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025
And there's a guy bussing the table, like a late 30s guy.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
Other cities that have received immigrants through bussing include Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia and Washington.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
I even like bussing tables in the restaurant, chatting with guests when I have a chance, and swapping stories with my coworkers.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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