bucket
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Vendors outside the arena sold Palestinian bucket hats and flags, as well as hats and flags with the logo of Irish rap trio Kneecap.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 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
There’s nothing like that in Grandpa’s tool bucket, so I wipe my hands on my jeans and head around to the front of the house and open the garage door.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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“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
Funds could not be used for legal or defense purposes or to repay personal loans, nor could they be pulled from education, transportation or public safety buckets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He explained the money was disbursed in buckets, and bureaucrats made the specific choices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The villagers nearer to the remains of the house held buckets, and a few were patrolling near the ash, looking for embers that still needed extinguishing.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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 bucketed Rocinante out of California by the shortest possible route—one I knew well from the old days of the 1930s.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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When Rishi Sunak called a general election in May, the then-prime minister made the announcement outdoors despite it bucketing with rain.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
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
“Generally the tiered model is a great approach and some of their general bucketing makes a lot of logical sense,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 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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