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He recalled how at age nine, his musician son Max recruited a bunch of "Aberystwyth lads" to start a rock band with him.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“You’re on a cruise, you got a bunch of people, a bunch of noise, maybe the boat’s rocking and you don’t even notice it before it’s just too late.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
In plain language, that means he’s probably going to ramble late into the night about a bunch of baseless conspiracy theories.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
"We know that there's much more lithium in planetary material than there is in stars. So if a star eats a planet, it's going to take on a bunch of lithium."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
A bunch of nails fell to the ground between his legs.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Step into your local supermarket, and you may find that those ordinarily humble broccoli bunches or cauliflower heads now carry higher price tags.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
In the Southern California Division I regional playoffs, LeDuc has watched his Damien players make threes in bunches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
They arrived to cheers from crowds waving Welsh flags and holding bunches of daffodils, before sipping hot drinks and chatting to people making signs, baking cakes and making traditional stew in preparation for the festivities.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
On a bridge next to the Kremlin on a drizzly Friday morning, a lone Russian police officer stood looking at the half-dozen bunches of flowers laying in memory of slain opposition figure Boris Nemtsov.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
The stairs coming up from Tata’s room on the first floor were marble, with a landing in between, and a colored glass window with bunches of grapes and twirling vines.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Cassidy, Trump-endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow, and state treasurer John Fleming have been relatively bunched in the polling.
From Slate ● May 16, 2026
"I feel like it's always very bunched here," said Canada's Taylor.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
All terrific players and some of them bunched in talented squads that just couldn't get the job done.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
He says he knows from experience the perilous nature of racing, with jockeys balanced over a saddle the size of a large handkerchief and horses bunched together running up to 40 miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
The two of them, loosely bunched, slid down too.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
In a loss to the Giants, the Dodgers scored their only run by bunching four walks in one hitless inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Even those who missed the boat on opening a DAF last year might find it useful for bunching deductions into one tax year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
In its assessment of the tax, the OBR said it expected the tax would begin to be reflected in the price of properties, with "price bunching to just below each band boundary".
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
Charitable contributions and charitable bunching are other options, LeCong says.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2025
Instead, they walked two abreast along the sidewalk, not bunching up but keeping a wide space between pairs, as though they were out for a casual afternoon stroll.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
