bucket

Example Sentences

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Besides stealing potential Wall Street customers, bucket shops could roil the capital markets.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

One way prediction markets resemble the old bucket shops is in the democratization of trading.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

From the outside, a bucket shop resembled a legitimate brokerage.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Numerous states passed “blue sky laws” to suppress bucket shops, yet the biggest scandal was yet to come.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Most folks can’t take silence for more than a few ticks on the clock, and they start trying to fill it like an empty bucket.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan