bus
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Independent scientists said it appears a SpaceX rocket, about the size of a school bus, has crashed into the moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
One person died after a tour bus caught fire on the 60 Freeway near Hacienda Heights on Friday morning, according to authorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
He had retired in 2020 after almost 30 years working as a taxi driver, and had previously worked as a bus conductor.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
These losses will weigh on the transport operator’s Singapore bus revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
On the bus ride home, Jonah made sure he and Chip didn’t get too distracted.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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There were about 20 times more EV trucks and buses on the road than hydrogen ones at the end of last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
They ride campus buses without paying a fare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Tickets were being accepted on alternative Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express services with rail replacement buses arranged for travel to Lewes and to Haywards Heath.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
From my perch I see thousands of revelers pour from the tram, cars that magically found a parking spot, bikes, and buses.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
The spectators are gathered around a short, youngish man who is walking from his car, which is parked in the no parking zone where the buses pick up and drop off.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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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
He said: "Four busses for hundreds of people coming to an airport? Four busses? We're all standing here and nobody can go anywhere."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
He said the elderly were evacuated on busses to hotels or other care facilities.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2023
“Wait. The busses aren’t owned by the school?”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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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
A few years later, I was bused across town to a much worse—and more diverse—middle school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
In his first season, which ended with an MLS playoff appearance, players raved about his attention to even the smallest details, which included how well they bused their tables in the team cafeteria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
And the white kids from the Flats, dishonor students, got bused in from the other direction.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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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
He had been a superintendent for a number of rural school districts in Mississippi, where he had spent his life forming busing systems and magnet schools to better integrate the black and white students.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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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
When we were done, we bussed our own tables and sorted our garbage from our recycling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
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
She bussed tables at age 12, before education powered her to a career as a lawyer and entrepreneur, who started a company while still in her 20s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
Mari and Yolanda served tables while other friends and family bussed or ran food or prepared drinks for guests.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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That money's up to over $100 million today, but the point is that with all of the negotiations, all that prospecting, the guy that was bussing the table had the most money in the room.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
“I’ve only played three games. It’s kind of crazy. Come back from not going to training camp and bussing kids around?”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
As a young man, he studied molecular biology at Cal State Northridge, and later did odd jobs from construction to bussing tables.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2023
The schools are free but don’t provide bussing.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2022
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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