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bus

[buhs] / bʌs /
VERB
transport
Synonyms


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And video filmed from inside a bus in Trishuli captured dozens of people trying to flee a flood surge that was surging through the valley.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

In July 2008, his former political ally, Radovan Karadžić - now a long-bearded faith-healer - was arrested on a bus in Belgrade.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

She was inviting us into her figurative and literal home — the tour bus she resided in for over a decade, with an overzealous guide to boot.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

They’d hit back-to-back in the lineup, and then get on the bus for a 13-hour ride and sit right next to each other.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Had he even spoken to Chip since this morning at the bus stop?

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

"I saw two buses carrying Indian pilgrims to Kailash Mansarovar," said 27-year-old Laloma, a Nepali mother.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Metro trains and buses increased by 4.4 million in June and July, compared to the same months in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

There's also a plan to introduce a park-and-ride system, and offer shuttle buses between the mountain ranges.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

India’s dysfunctional urbanization provides an endless stream of videos: mounds of rotting garbage, trains overflowing with commuters, half-drowned school buses on flooded roads.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

We’re in the line of buses for the school’s drop-off zone when she points.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

Long before cars were common and busses were running, residents still got around on the backs of their horse carts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

“What moderates are worried about is not just the ideas that he has run on like free busses and, you know, grocery stores, that kind of thing,” Bennett said.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2025

Local media pictures showed long queues of busses heading to the Torkham crossing where thousands of people waited for clearance and would likely spend night in open as the crossing closes at 9pm.

From Reuters Nov. 1, 2023

He said: "Four busses for hundreds of people coming to an airport? Four busses? We're all standing here and nobody can go anywhere."

From BBC Oct. 13, 2023

They went to Washington for protest marches, and Morrie often rode the busses with his students.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

In August 2024, Novo Nordisk bused its employees to the sprawling Roskilde fairgrounds outside Copenhagen for its annual summer party.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

In 2019, a self-described "caravan" of Americans bused to Canada to purchase cheaper insulin for type 1 diabetes - and to protest the costs in the US for the life-saving medication.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

But by far the largest number of third-country deportees are being quietly sent to Mexico, where they are quickly bused to smaller cities thousands of miles south of the U.S. border.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2026

A few years later, I was bused across town to a much worse—and more diverse—middle school.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

“I thought it was all filled up, you know? That’s why they bused us to Ohio.”

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

“Sound of Freedom” had church groups busing to theaters to watch the movie in hordes.

From Salon May 3, 2026

Instead, the city is busing students to schools that have extra space.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 29, 2025

Daryl, 42, a self-described conservative, lived in several Southern communities as a child, including Charlotte, North Carolina, in the mid-1980s as the city wrestled with its court-ordered school busing program.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2025

“We were busing three, four times a week, just hanging out with everybody for an extra 30-40 minutes a day that we usually wouldn’t have,” Cholowsky said.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2025

He had been a superintendent for a number of rural school districts in Mississippi, where he had spent his life forming busing systems and magnet schools to better integrate the black and white students.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

Evacuees from surrounding villages were bussed in to shelter in sports halls around the capital.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

So, I would spend summers being bussed out or sleeping out at cousins and grandparents and aunts and uncles’ houses to work on the farm.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

He grabs a dish rag and scans the room before he wipes down a table that he’d just bussed.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2025

Instead, they were taken by military plane directly to Panama, did not go through customs upon arrival and were immediately detained in the hotel until they were bussed to the camp.

From Salon Mar. 3, 2025

And he bussed down the slope in a blur of petulant green.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

At times, Kansteiner says, she’ll find Velador in the dining room bussing tables to help because she knows the restaurant’s staff is overwhelmed.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2025

That money's up to over $100 million today, but the point is that with all of the negotiations, all that prospecting, the guy that was bussing the table had the most money in the room.

From Salon May 18, 2024

In another Texan border city, Laredo, the manager of a community centre described to the BBC how border agents were bussing migrants and asylum centres because they were "overwhelmed".

From BBC Feb. 29, 2024

Other cities that have received immigrants through bussing include Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia and Washington.

From Washington Times Jul. 20, 2023

I even like bussing tables in the restaurant, chatting with guests when I have a chance, and swapping stories with my coworkers.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day




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