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
I dodged the horse pulling a long omnibus on the center track.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
The solution most cities settled on was horse-drawn streetcars and omnibuses.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
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
Slowly but surely they were displacing the omnibuses, which dated back more than half a century.
From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward
Stilly! with the horns and songs from omnibusses that carry tourists, and with yells from nymphs and swains disporting themselves in the boats.
From Angling Sketches by Lang, Andrew
There are no railroad tracks on Broadway below Fourteenth street; the public travel is done by means of omnibusses, or stages, as they are called.
From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney
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 Boyd, E. E., Mrs.
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
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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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