omnibus
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Mungiu also began working on what would eventually become the subversive 2009 omnibus film “Tales From the Golden Age,” which riffed on Communist-era Romanian urban myths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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
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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 distance between homes and jobs undermined the “walking city” and led to horse-drawn streetcars and omnibuses for urban transportation.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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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
What would she have thought of the modern fashion of going in omnibuses?
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
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
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 Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
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
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
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