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That point is proved time and again, as editors scheme against each other, belittle each other’s literary taste and throw Batter under the bus whenever an opportunity arises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Most of the demonstrations in recent weeks have been peaceful, but some protesters have started fires and vandalised bus shelters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
This will be brought into sharper focus after incidents before a Champions League quarter-final at Anfield in April 2018, when City's team bus was attacked with bottles and flares when it arrived before the game.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Like many a theatrical hopeful, as a young man Mr. Stallone arrived in New York City by bus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
More of his classmates boarded the bus, laughing and showing one another trinkets from the store.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Last year, tests carried out for Oslo's Ruter public transport authority revealed that Chinese manufacturer Yutong could theoretically remotely immobilise its electric buses with their "over-the-air" update system.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
They needed to lower the carriageway by around 16 inches to let standard double-decker buses pass under the bridges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Assignments might include building nuclear autonomous buses or robots that cook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Fans lined city centre streets to see the buses, which arrived at Wakefield Town Hall at about 15:00.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
When they started calling buses, and Jeff went into the hall to his locker along with some other kids, Mrs. Tracy called me up to her desk.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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After graduating from college, Batter moves to New York, where he folds shirts at the Gap and busses tables at a restaurant named Just Okay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Long before cars were common and busses were running, residents still got around on the backs of their horse carts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“What moderates are worried about is not just the ideas that he has run on like free busses and, you know, grocery stores, that kind of thing,” Bennett said.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
Most of the Afghan nationals were brought to the centers in rickety busses, some of them handcuffed.
From Reuters ● Nov. 1, 2023
The vet and Crenshaw prepared to change busses at the next stop, and upon leaving, the vet placed his hand upon my shoulder and looked at me with kindness, and, as always, he smiled.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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In August 2024, Novo Nordisk bused its employees to the sprawling Roskilde fairgrounds outside Copenhagen for its annual summer party.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
After evacuating the plane, the passengers were bused back to the terminal as emergency crews responded to the scene, DIA said.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
When soldiers are returned to Russia, they are bused from Belarus, bordering Russia and Ukraine, where most exchanges occur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
King/Drew walked four blocks to a practice field in the spring and summer and had to wait between 4 to 5 p.m. to be bused to a practice field during the season, he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
At that point, 2,900 of the 3,200 marchers were bused back to Selma, where many would stay as guests of black families until rejoining the marchers near Montgomery.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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“Sound of Freedom” had church groups busing to theaters to watch the movie in hordes.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
Docter said later that busing “should have been introduced on a voluntary basis to dispel fears among the majority population and resist white flight.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Instead, the city is busing students to schools that have extra space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025
Daryl, 42, a self-described conservative, lived in several Southern communities as a child, including Charlotte, North Carolina, in the mid-1980s as the city wrestled with its court-ordered school busing program.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2025
He had been a superintendent for a number of rural school districts in Mississippi, where he had spent his life forming busing systems and magnet schools to better integrate the black and white students.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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Evacuees from surrounding villages were bussed in to shelter in sports halls around the capital.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
When we were done, we bussed our own tables and sorted our garbage from our recycling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
At the school where the Lions are based in the Melbourne suburbs, rugby posts had to be bussed in so the tourists could train.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Instead, they were taken by military plane directly to Panama, did not go through customs upon arrival and were immediately detained in the hotel until they were bussed to the camp.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2025
Mari and Yolanda served tables while other friends and family bussed or ran food or prepared drinks for guests.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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Under US diplomatic pressure, Mexico has been conducting its largest ever migrant crackdown, bussing and flying non-Mexican migrants to the country’s south, far from the US border.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
And there's a guy bussing the table, like a late 30s guy.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
“I’ve only played three games. It’s kind of crazy. Come back from not going to training camp and bussing kids around?”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
As a young man, he studied molecular biology at Cal State Northridge, and later did odd jobs from construction to bussing tables.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2023
I even like bussing tables in the restaurant, chatting with guests when I have a chance, and swapping stories with my coworkers.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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