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busted

[buhs-tid] / ˈbʌs tɪd /
















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An orange car pulled into the parking lot, with a busted taillight, and a few members of the group got up and hobbled over.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Multilingual scripts, images of young women and timed toilet breaks: a police tour of a newly busted cyberscam operation in Cambodia on Wednesday revealed how fraudsters ensnare foreign victims online.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Smith said he was once told that Williamson “got busted hiding food under his bed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

The rest of the sport found out just how much better it was when Klaebo busted out his innovation at the World Championships in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

“I said, those books we got from y’all, they were all missing pages. I can fix busted furniture, but I can’t make pages appear for the little ones to learn their lessons.”

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez