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bucket

[buhk-it] / ˈbʌk ɪt /
NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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Leonard gets fined $700,000, also a drop in the bucket for someone who should also have been suspended.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

There’s also annual nondiscrimination testing that can limit how much high earners are allowed to put into that bucket, and in some plans the contributions get refunded after year-end.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

Trading apps have replaced bucket shops, but Wall Street abounds with eerie parallels to 1901.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The bucket was placed on the floor, after which a "splash" was heard.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Thus preoccupied with worry and hazy minded from lack of sleep, Penelope gathered her fishing pole, bait, and bucket.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

“This is the most behavioral-finance approach,” Chatzky said — because when there’s turmoil, you have enough in the cash and fixed-income buckets that you don’t have to touch your stocks for 10 years.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

Volunteer firefighters were using "whatever we have. Sometimes we use buckets, and even those aren't enough", said Yonas, adding that the teams were also in need of food and protective gear, including masks.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

When her turn came, she filled her buckets and carried them home.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Victor Medina, founder of Palante Wealth Advisors, works with his clients to create buckets of funds, including a “great life” bucket for things like travel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Here and there on the long sloping hillside, milky white splotches stood out like spilt buckets of milk in the deep green.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

A fourth person, the pilot of a helicopter helping with "bucketing" operations, died after a crash in the neighbouring Alberta province last week.

From BBC Jul. 30, 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

Others hunted for hidden petrol and ship oil pockets, bucketing out the valuable fluid.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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