bucket
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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
Clare flung the rag into the bucket beside the hearth.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
Standing before a 20-foot wall of bright blue buckets, he tells one, facing the wrong way, that they don’t carry buckets, that they’re old-fashioned and no one uses them anymore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Everything fits in three shipping containers, which are moisture-controlled with buckets of silica gel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Richard, James, and I spend the afternoon bringing buckets of water from the river to dump on the tiny new shoots.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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“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
In the silver chill of the Maine afternoon, as I bucketed and lumbered over the pitted surface of a wood road, I saw four lady mooses moving with stately heaviness across my bow.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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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
I’m going to be listing out all relevant fantasy football players each week and bucketing them into tiers.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 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
Others hunted for hidden petrol and ship oil pockets, bucketing out the valuable fluid.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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