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omnibus

[om-nuh-buhs, -buhs] / ˈɒm nəˌbʌs, -bəs /
NOUN
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The ESAs were part of an omnibus bill that included provisions to raise teacher pay and extend the state’s literacy reforms to other grades.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2026

The projects have been sped by a deregulation campaign that began in 2020 with an "omnibus law" that reformed dozens of regulations at once to boost investment and create jobs in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

The act is the only provision of the omnibus package that the court struck down.

From Slate Feb. 24, 2025

And so we turn to chapter three in Mike White’s semi-anthological omnibus luxury travel mystery series, “The White Lotus,” premiering Sunday on HBO.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

Once the omnibus was out of sight and we could no longer hear the horse’s hooves, she handed me something heavy and cold.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The solution most cities settled on was horse-drawn streetcars and omnibuses.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

The clean, quiet electrobus looked set to be stiff competition for the city's lumbering, petrol-guzzling omnibuses.

From Nature Sep. 26, 2017

In that pre-automobile era, horses were public animals, seen daily by urbanites as they pulled milk wagons and omnibuses.

From Washington Post Aug. 1, 2017

Anthologies, omnibuses, whatever you want to call them: Those cinematic conglomerations of disconnected or slightly interwoven stories are what I’m talking about.

From Washington Times Jun. 23, 2015

Of course you would not be able to do any actual sailing in London, but I mean the equivalent of sailing, like riding about on the outside of omnibuses at all hours.

From Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie

The excursion was to start from the church, where already there was quite an array of omnibusses drawn up as much in the shade as possible.

From 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother by Mrs. E. E. Boyd

Near Liverpool it is cut very deeply through rock, and there is a long tunnel which leads into a yard where omnibusses wait to convey passengers to the inns. 

From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various

You were just stepping into one of those very omnibusses you have since seen fit to decry.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various

The streets resounded with the rattling wheels of omnibusses, cabs and various vehicles, as they bore the gay and fashionable part of the village to the splendid hall.

From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Abigail Stanley Hanna

More coaches, omnibusses, waggons, vans, and other conveyances, crowd the streets of London than any other city in the world.

From The World's Fair by Anonymous




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