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bucket

noun as in container, often for liquids, with handle

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It was like a fire bucket brigade, with workers passing the melons down the line to be placed into large boxes on a flatbed, a process the owner called “pitching.”

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Siegrist went digging in a bucket full of coins and junk for a key chain.

But everything being done adds up to a drop in the bucket for a city with some 1,000 supermarkets in total.

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The Titans were family, and to this day he remembers that Wilhite’s father attended practice just about every day, sitting in the front row, wearing that trademark white bucket hat.

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Consider a person who retires with only tax-deferred accounts: They lose strategic flexibility compared with those who diversify across taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free buckets, which really allows us to optimize that lifetime tax rate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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