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omnibus

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

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

And so we turn to chapter three in Mike White’s semi-anthological omnibus luxury travel mystery series, “The White Lotus,” premiering Sunday on HBO.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

We climbed aboard the clattering omnibus just as it pulled up, and it carried us all the way to the southern edge of the city, where the prairie grasses grew tall and abundant.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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 Institution was two miles from Boston, where the friends of her girlhood lived: an unattractive district stretched between, traversed once in two hours by omnibuses, the only means of transport.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott

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

Stilly! with the horns and songs from omnibusses that carry tourists, and with yells from nymphs and swains disporting themselves in the boats. 

From Angling Sketches by Andrew Lang

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 James Dabney McCabe

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

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


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