omnibus
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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
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
Wednesday just happened to be the deadline a judge set for lawyers to file an omnibus complaint on behalf of 10,000 residents and business owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
"One of the secrets I honestly think, is it's 15 minutes every night and then that big omnibus on a Sunday," he told the BBC's Nick Owen.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
If done in public, it would no doubt assure anyone of getting a seat on even the most crowded omnibus.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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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
Though she lived some distance away, though on Christmas night London omnibuses are few and far between, Mademoiselle could hardly be persuaded to go home, so much was she enjoying herself.
From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
He stood hesitating, leisurely inspecting the flashing ranks of vehicles—depot wagons, omnibusses, and motor cars already eddying around a dusty gravel drive centred by the conventional railroad flower bed and fountain.
From The Fighting Chance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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 Hanna, Abigail Stanley
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
There are no railroad tracks on Broadway below Fourteenth street; the public travel is done by means of omnibusses, or stages, as they are called.
From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney
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 Boyd, E. E., Mrs.
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