bus
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“A major thing we were advocating for was safety. Whether you ride the bus or not, safe streets are in everyone’s interest,” Sweeney said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
But after waiting with Ella for the bus that didn't turn up, she asked for her information to be removed.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ella said something "felt off" when they couldn't see the bus that Darryl Smith said he had brought.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Jeff hadn’t been on the bus that morning, but he was already sitting in his seat next to me at the head of row two.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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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
The US Navy has organised shuttle buses from the port into Pattaya running from 5am to 2am every day the carrier is here in Thailand.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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
SCHERERVILLE, Ind.—An American flag big enough to cover two school buses flaps over a Steak ’n Shake location southeast of Chicago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
We waited till everybody had gone through and out of the station and gotten into buses, or taken cabs, or were walking with their friends or relatives through the dark into the town.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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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
Before long, her Instagram page was filled with photos from Wimbledon and double-decker busses.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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 the elderly were evacuated on busses to hotels or other care facilities.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2023
Where my mother changed busses she'd gone into a store and bought him a trowel and four packets of seeds.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
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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
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
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
To see a doctor, she was bused nearly three hours each way to a medical center in Monroe, La.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
The next day they bused him for fourteen hours, all the way back to Guatemala.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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“Sound of Freedom” had church groups busing to theaters to watch the movie in hordes.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
Providing this busing was one of many elements considered in the complex project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
Instead, the city is busing students to schools that have extra space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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
Diners were everywhere, and so were jobs making deliveries, washing dishes, or busing tables.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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
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
Schiff was a familiar face to many of the volunteers, who had been bussed in from California by labor unions to knock on doors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
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
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
Riverside also is bussing kids in who were displaced to another district — over 30 miles from the Central Valley School District, over 15 miles from Mead and from Deer Park.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 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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