bus
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The impact sent Bustillos’ car spinning into a nearby bus stop, where Carlos was waiting after walking a friend home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Same cheery font, same yellow bus blasting through the cosmos, same depiction of wacky teacher Ms. Frizzle and her cute chameleon sidekick Liz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
"I imagined it might be my teacher, the people I saw on the bus... and I was very angry because it's impossible to live like this."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Sivaranjani Muthunathan was travelling in Nepal by bus with 56 others from India's southern state of Tamil Nadu.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
As I was thinking this and watching the last of the bus kids get into their seats, my eyes finally came to the last seat of the last row.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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At peak hours, trains run as often as every two minutes and buses fill the gaps between subway stops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I saw two buses carrying Indian pilgrims to Kailash Mansarovar," said 27-year-old Laloma, a Nepali mother.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
The nearest train stations to the festival site are Runcorn Station, Warrington Central, Warrington Bank Quay and Liverpool Lime Street which will have shuttle buses operating to and from the site.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Paddy was inspired for this, his biggest project, by journeys he made on buses when he was younger.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The crowd pushes me out and away from the campus, and down the row of idling yellow buses.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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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
He said: "Four busses for hundreds of people coming to an airport? Four busses? We're all standing here and nobody can go anywhere."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
Where my mother changed busses she'd gone into a store and bought him a trowel and four packets of seeds.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
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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
Once they were registered, the families with their bags and their pets were bused to Lozova station, to board a long train heading for Lviv in western Ukraine.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
A few years later, I was bused across town to a much worse—and more diverse—middle school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Last September, before being bused to Eastern prison, I spent five days inside H Block.
From Slate ● May 19, 2025
The high school team now got bused to his club after school, a short five-minute ride away.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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“Sound of Freedom” had church groups busing to theaters to watch the movie in hordes.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
Working long hours doing a bit of everything—right down to busing tables—Meyer ate one at the end of almost every lunch shift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 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
Campaigning in the Wisconsin primary in Milwaukee one morning, I heard Carter espouse one position on school busing that seemed to please a predominately Black church congregation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
A few years ago, they started busing students in from all over the city.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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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
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
Schiff was a familiar face to many of the volunteers, who had been bussed in from California by labor unions to knock on doors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
Ignatius bent down and lightly bussed her on the cheek.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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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