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

NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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Maykel Aguilar, 30, patiently filled a 200-liter tank and several buckets at a pipe connected to a spring on a street in the capital's old town.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

He pulled out his phone and recorded himself dumping fat streams of quarters into collection buckets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Standing before a 20-foot wall of bright blue buckets, he tells one, facing the wrong way, that they don’t carry buckets, that they’re old-fashioned and no one uses them anymore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

She nudges one of the buckets toward me.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila


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