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We are introduced to a former housemaid, who, before being diagnosed as insane, was “up before dawn with scuttle bucket and shovel, home in the dark to the thatch dripping soot.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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

It is, in many respects, the bucket list to end all bucket lists.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

“I can’t be positive,” Grandpa said, “but I’d be willing to bet my last bucket of sorghum molasses on it.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

Everything fits in three shipping containers, which are moisture-controlled with buckets of silica gel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

I send up two buckets of clean water, make a tasteless pot of porridge that will at least keep someone alive, and then Helena and I clean.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

“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

For much of Saturday afternoon, the skies above Charlotte were a dirty shade of grey, the rain bucketing down, the wind blowing hard, thunder and lightning seen and heard every minute or so.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

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

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

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi