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bucket

[buhk-it] / ˈbʌk ɪt /
NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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When Kevin Rogers, a 40-year-old real-estate broker and father of four, moved near Fair Oaks Ranch Golf & Country Club outside San Antonio six years ago, joining wasn’t on his bucket list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Twenty-eight out of 23 million registered voters in California is just … a drop in the bucket numerically,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

But, unlike the rust bucket Delano has become, it wasn’t abandoned either.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“We bucket cash in three ways,” Driscoll said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ratwin launched herself overboard to catch fish, eventually filling a bucket, each fish bearing a small set of tooth marks.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“We have well-defined buckets as to how much we want to hold, and we’re also hedging some of those exposures as well,” Citizens Chief Executive Bruce Van Saun told analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

The company is pushing sandwiches, wings and tenders to diversify away from its traditional bone-in buckets of chicken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Woodall returned at the cafe’s request, filming the stained, decaying ceiling and the water-catching buckets and coffee pots on the floor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

I asked, as together we balanced the buckets and hauled the wagon across the yard to the funeral home.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Race organiser Duncan Smith said: "It's been a brilliant day with fantastic weather, after three years when it's absolutely bucketed down with rain."

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

“I think we need a more personalized approach for each individual in determining when they should actually start screening—not this bucketed start age,” Bea says.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023

He said the Fed would revisit how firms were bucketed by size when it came to supervision and regulation.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Any captured water is bucketed to toilets for flushing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2018

I let Charley out, and suddenly an angry streak of gray burned across the clearing in the pines and bucketed into the house.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The helicopter pilot, 41, was helping with "bucketing" operations, in which specialised buckets suspended by cables are used to douse fires, officials said.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023

Choosing value-based strategies, dividend stocks and bucketing approaches can help you navigate several market scenarios, Saglimbene said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022

“The water was still thigh-high at 7 a.m. and those who parked their cars in the streets were in panic because their vehicles were submerged … Other residents were bucketing out water from their homes.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2022

They spent the next night and early morning bucketing out sewage and stormwater that had overflowed from the basement toilet and shower, rushed in through the sump pump and seeped in through the foundation.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

Well, at least it was better than bucketing rain, Victor thought as he pulled his hat down over his face.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke


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