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
The act is the only provision of the omnibus package that the court struck down.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 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
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
Park omnibuses heavily laden with women and children drew up for an instant before the Terrace, and then went on again to skirt the Lake.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
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
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
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
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
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