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bucket

[buhk-it] / ˈbʌk ɪt /
NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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"The knee joint, which is also the most common location for osteoarthritis, naturally acts like a leaky bucket," Liu says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

“It’s really a drop in the bucket when we’re talking about statewide human-wildlife conflicts,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

“It was at the top of my bucket list.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

If we were slow with the bucket it would be kalte kost.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Their work with portfolio companies typically falls into three buckets: helping plan and execute their next fundraise; building and scaling financial operating models; and hiring finance personnel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

A growing cadre of volunteers increasingly helps with the next step, the actual harvest, scooping acorns off the ground and into bags and buckets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

When you get to the end of each year, Chatzky said to look at the performance of each of the buckets and think about what you may need to move as the years go by.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Samantha Banner and her partner have been living without heating or hot water for most of her pregnancy, relying on washing in buckets filled with kettle-boiled water, camping showers, or travelling elsewhere.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

We set down our buckets and rush over.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

“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

"The rain was horrendous. It literally bucketed down," said parish council vice-chairman Mike Palmer.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2021

Any captured water is bucketed to toilets for flushing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2018

It’s outside, waiting to be bucketed, lifted inside, and decorated with paper chains and berries.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

Even for players who seem well documented, bucketing their records along with the rest of the major leagues struggles to capture the objective history people seek in statistics.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2020

He was glad they hadn’t waited for the rain to come bucketing down; it was slippery enough as it was.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook


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