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omnibus

[om-nuh-buhs, -buhs] / ˈɒm nəˌbʌs, -bəs /
NOUN
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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

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

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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