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
The trading records inside the omnibus accounts contain no information about the individuals making the trades.
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
“A red locomotive, moving fast along shiny new tracks. And it blows a trail of smoke behind it? Like a man running after the omnibus while clutching a lit cigar?”
From "The Long-Lost Home" 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
The place is very easily reached—by omnibuses from the city to the Middlesex end of the bridge; by steamers every half-hour during summer; and by trains from the Waterloo and the North London Stations.
From Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood by Anonymous
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
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
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
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
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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