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bus

[buhs] / bʌs /
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transport
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Three bus stops between Castle Street and Frederick Street will also remain closed to reduce congestion.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

While travelling with Wagoner on a tour bus in 1969, Parton wrote Coat of Many Colors, a beautifully emotive tale of how she grew up poor, but rich with love.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

The next afternoon she was on a bus heading for Nashville, targeting a career in country music.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

The next day, she took a bus to Nashville.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

And last week I was on my way here after school when Rhys surprised me, pulling up in front of me at the bus stop, inviting me out for frozen yogurt.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

"I saw two buses carrying Indian pilgrims to Kailash Mansarovar," said 27-year-old Laloma, a Nepali mother.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Metro trains and buses increased by 4.4 million in June and July, compared to the same months in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

The mayor ran on a campaign platform of affordability, pledging to raise taxes to cover services like universal child care, and free and faster buses.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Paddy was inspired for this, his biggest project, by journeys he made on buses when he was younger.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

When the caravan of buses pulls up at Varadero Beach, all of us are delirious with joy.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

Before long, her Instagram page was filled with photos from Wimbledon and double-decker busses.

From BBC Jun. 10, 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

Local media pictures showed long queues of busses heading to the Torkham crossing where thousands of people waited for clearance and would likely spend night in open as the crossing closes at 9pm.

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

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

In 2019, a self-described "caravan" of Americans bused to Canada to purchase cheaper insulin for type 1 diabetes - and to protest the costs in the US for the life-saving medication.

From BBC Jun. 3, 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

To see a doctor, she was bused nearly three hours each way to a medical center in Monroe, La.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2025

He had known—or at least known of—Pelicarnassus for all the years they’d been bused to their school.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

“Sound of Freedom” had church groups busing to theaters to watch the movie in hordes.

From Salon May 3, 2026

Integration through busing “didn’t fail,” Docter said later.

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

It was a day that had started with such high hopes: the varsity hoops team busing to Salt Lake for the state tournament.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

Not wishing to discard its "magnificent tubers" back into the fields, Osterland Agrar says it's set to have bussed around 500,000kg to Berlin, and other parts of Germany and Ukraine.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2026

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

Ignatius bent down and lightly bussed her on the cheek.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

At times, Kansteiner says, she’ll find Velador in the dining room bussing tables to help because she knows the restaurant’s staff is overwhelmed.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2025

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

That money's up to over $100 million today, but the point is that with all of the negotiations, all that prospecting, the guy that was bussing the table had the most money in the room.

From Salon May 18, 2024

Other cities that have received immigrants through bussing include Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia and Washington.

From Washington Times Jul. 20, 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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