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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

The trading records inside the omnibus accounts contain no information about the individuals making the trades.

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

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

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

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

Slowly but surely they were displacing the omnibuses, which dated back more than half a century.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford

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

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

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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