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bus

[buhs] / bʌs /
VERB
transport
Synonyms


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Our favorite games unfolded beneath the dining table; at times, we transformed it into a bus, traveling to unfamiliar places, as we took turns playing different roles: the driver, the passenger, and the ticket officer.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

The path through Eagle Rock would run along what is now a median and eliminate one car lane to create a dedicated bus lane.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

He fears a bus lane may be its undoing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

The Scottish government's policy to cap bus fares in the west of Scotland at £2 has taken effect.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

More of his classmates boarded the bus, laughing and showing one another trinkets from the store.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

She was due to be picked up on one of the Haggis Waggon Tours buses in Paisley at 8am, along with three others.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

But for the signs in Albanian, we could have been on the Amalfi Coast, or the Côte d’Azur, except that it has not yet been overrun with bachelorettes and party buses.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

One raid took place at a bar in which ICE rolled up with a fleet of rented buses at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning.

From Salon Sep. 1, 2026

At peak hours, trains run as often as every two minutes and buses fill the gaps between subway stops.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Through a federally funded job training program operated by Goodwill Industries, McNair found a $9-an-hour job at a warehouse twenty miles—two buses and a taxi ride—away.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

After evacuating the plane, the passengers were bused back to the terminal as emergency crews responded to the scene, DIA said.

From BBC May 9, 2026

But by far the largest number of third-country deportees are being quietly sent to Mexico, where they are quickly bused to smaller cities thousands of miles south of the U.S. border.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2026

When soldiers are returned to Russia, they are bused from Belarus, bordering Russia and Ukraine, where most exchanges occur.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 22, 2025

The next day they bused him for fourteen hours, all the way back to Guatemala.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

“Sound of Freedom” had church groups busing to theaters to watch the movie in hordes.

From Salon May 3, 2026

Docter said later that busing “should have been introduced on a voluntary basis to dispel fears among the majority population and resist white flight.”

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

It was a day that had started with such high hopes: the varsity hoops team busing to Salt Lake for the state tournament.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

Not wishing to discard its "magnificent tubers" back into the fields, Osterland Agrar says it's set to have bussed around 500,000kg to Berlin, and other parts of Germany and Ukraine.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2026

He grabs a dish rag and scans the room before he wipes down a table that he’d just bussed.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2025

Ignatius bent down and lightly bussed her on the cheek.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

At times, Kansteiner says, she’ll find Velador in the dining room bussing tables to help because she knows the restaurant’s staff is overwhelmed.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2025

And there's a guy bussing the table, like a late 30s guy.

From Salon May 18, 2024

In another Texan border city, Laredo, the manager of a community centre described to the BBC how border agents were bussing migrants and asylum centres because they were "overwhelmed".

From BBC Feb. 29, 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

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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