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bucket

[buhk-it] / ˈbʌk ɪt /
NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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When Kevin Rogers, a 40-year-old real-estate broker and father of four, moved near Fair Oaks Ranch Golf & Country Club outside San Antonio six years ago, joining wasn’t on his bucket list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Twenty-eight out of 23 million registered voters in California is just … a drop in the bucket numerically,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

But, unlike the rust bucket Delano has become, it wasn’t abandoned either.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Morgan credit-strategy report dated Oct 16 noted that the CCC bucket of the high-yield bond index has contracted to a record low 8.6%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Both men move purposefully, brushing the animals, covering them with blankets, feeding them hay and filling a bucket with water.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Neighbors line up in the same spot, marking their place with tanks, buckets and jerrycans.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Funds could not be used for legal or defense purposes or to repay personal loans, nor could they be pulled from education, transportation or public safety buckets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Their concerns fall mostly into two buckets: loss-of-control and human misuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“This is the most behavioral-finance approach,” Chatzky said — because when there’s turmoil, you have enough in the cash and fixed-income buckets that you don’t have to touch your stocks for 10 years.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

He was drenched by buckets of yellow glop, white sludge, and chunky green gunk.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

Race organiser Duncan Smith said: "It's been a brilliant day with fantastic weather, after three years when it's absolutely bucketed down with rain."

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

“I think we need a more personalized approach for each individual in determining when they should actually start screening—not this bucketed start age,” Bea says.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023

He said the Fed would revisit how firms were bucketed by size when it came to supervision and regulation.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Any captured water is bucketed to toilets for flushing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2018

It’s outside, waiting to be bucketed, lifted inside, and decorated with paper chains and berries.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The helicopter pilot, 41, was helping with "bucketing" operations, in which specialised buckets suspended by cables are used to douse fires, officials said.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023

Choosing value-based strategies, dividend stocks and bucketing approaches can help you navigate several market scenarios, Saglimbene said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022

“The water was still thigh-high at 7 a.m. and those who parked their cars in the streets were in panic because their vehicles were submerged … Other residents were bucketing out water from their homes.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2022

They spent the next night and early morning bucketing out sewage and stormwater that had overflowed from the basement toilet and shower, rushed in through the sump pump and seeped in through the foundation.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

He was glad they hadn’t waited for the rain to come bucketing down; it was slippery enough as it was.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook


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