buckets
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The 36-year-old tower crane operator in Nashville, Tenn., who works 12-hour shifts, helps lift and move rebar and buckets of concrete from a perch often hundreds of feet in the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
In an already tenuous industry marked by razor-thin margins, high rents and increasing costs for goods and labor, some of the Southland’s favorite beach bars and restaurants are dumping out buckets of water this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Neighbors line up in the same spot, marking their place with tanks, buckets and jerrycans.
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
Our arms are stronger as we walk back with our buckets of water.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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