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bucket

[buhk-it] / ˈbʌk ɪt /
NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
Synonyms


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Without hot water, she had to wash using a bucket.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

You set your spending from the cash bucket, refill it with fixed-income yields, and then buy new fixed-income products with the sale of stock.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

He said the team have already collected "five big bucket loads" of litter which he said "covered half the distance" of the town's promenade.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

The team is fined $30 million, a drop in the bucket to the owner who, with other executives, got suspended for up to a year.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Leo drops his brush into the water bucket.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

When you get to the end of each year, Chatzky said to look at the performance of each of the buckets and think about what you may need to move as the years go by.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

Volunteer firefighters were using "whatever we have. Sometimes we use buckets, and even those aren't enough", said Yonas, adding that the teams were also in need of food and protective gear, including masks.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

When her turn came, she filled her buckets and carried them home.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Victor Medina, founder of Palante Wealth Advisors, works with his clients to create buckets of funds, including a “great life” bucket for things like travel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

I hear yawning, grunting, men relieving themselves into slop buckets.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

“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

"The rain was horrendous. It literally bucketed down," said parish council vice-chairman Mike Palmer.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2021

Any captured water is bucketed to toilets for flushing.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2018

I let Charley out, and suddenly an angry streak of gray burned across the clearing in the pines and bucketed into the house.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

For much of Saturday afternoon, the skies above Charlotte were a dirty shade of grey, the rain bucketing down, the wind blowing hard, thunder and lightning seen and heard every minute or so.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

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

From Washington Post Dec. 21, 2022

I’m going to be listing out all relevant fantasy football players each week and bucketing them into tiers.

From Seattle Times Sep. 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

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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