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omnibus

[om-nuh-buhs, -buhs] / ˈɒm nəˌbʌs, -bəs /
NOUN
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Though omnibus legislation approved last year promised $1 billion in security funding to make the 2028 Games secure, none of that money has arrived in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

Finra says it is reviewing underwriters involved in multiple small-cap offerings and brokers with omnibus accounts that traded those stocks.

From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025

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

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2025

“What we shall want is a regular service of boats like that of an omnibus line in a city street,” he wrote.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

He notes that New York’s unexpectedly low turnout in the November 1872 presidential election may have reflected voters’ inability to catch horse-drawn omnibuses or streetcars to reach polling stations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

The designations given to the omnibuses, whether meaning or unmeaning in themselves, are found to be very convenient, because they are generally written in large conspicuous characters. 

From Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood by Anonymous

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

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

The means of transportation now at the command of the people are the street railways and the omnibusses, or stages; as they are called.

From The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

I only want to be quiet in Venice, where there are no carts or omnibusses.

From The End of a Coil by Susan Warner


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