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bus

[buhs] / bʌs /
VERB
transport
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Additions like a full bus system, detailed non-player characters and a much, much larger map all have gamers itching to start playing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Another $257 million was set aside last summer to create and enhance “mobility hubs” that connect pedestrians, bicyclists and bus and train riders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Plans to introduce "bee bus stops" aimed to boost biodiversity in urban areas have been approved for Peterborough.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

On the bus back to the city, it became apparent that an employee visiting from Hong Kong was likely suffering from heatstroke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

But they wouldn’t be going by bus, train, or boat.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

California’s Clean Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project offers point-of-sale discounts on zero-emission trucks and buses and has distributed $1 billion so far.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

A stretch of London's iconic Oxford Street was made traffic-free "forever" starting Monday, as pedestrians took over the country's most famous shopping street, absent of the capital's red double-decker buses and black cabs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

In Kashgar, middle-aged Chinese men in cowboy hats descend from tour buses to chow down on grilled lamb skewers and pilaf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Now, Hargrave relies on Chicago’s public buses and trains with a $75 monthly pass, and spends less than $200 a month on Ubers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Residents in the towns of Futaba and Okuma, as well as nearby Namie and Tomioka, clambered onto buses bound for towns farther inland.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

No busses to get on or traveling to do.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

Others have bused to airports in Bahrain and Qatar to both exit and enter the kingdom.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

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

Immigration agents caught him and bused him to Tapachula.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

If a state decides to fund services such as tutoring, therapy, school lunches, busing and on-campus nurses, then faith-based schools are entitled to participate alongside nonsectarian counterparts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

As the school board president, Docter became the face of the school system’s effort to carry out court-ordered, mandatory integration, including through forced busing, which he supported as a social-justice imperative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

Diners were everywhere, and so were jobs making deliveries, washing dishes, or busing tables.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The Pakistan team were bussed to the wrong arena for their game with Uzbekistan the same day, delaying the start of their match by 45 minutes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

So, I would spend summers being bussed out or sleeping out at cousins and grandparents and aunts and uncles’ houses to work on the farm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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

He grabs a dish rag and scans the room before he wipes down a table that he’d just bussed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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

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

And there's a guy bussing the table, like a late 30s guy.

From Salon ● May 18, 2024

In recent months, security forces began removing some migrants from the city, bussing them elsewhere and, migrants say, dumping some of them in the desert.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 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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