bucket

Example Sentences

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“I’m going to travel to my entire bucket list,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

But with a final heave of the digger bucket, a shower of gold was released from the soil.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

Frances Perkins, Franklin Roosevelt’s Labor secretary, recalled having to clean up the agency — not just morally and ethically, but with broom and bucket, when she took over from William Nuckles Doak, Herbert Hoover’s appointee.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

The second bucket is for new capabilities that can be AI assisted.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026

The $16 billion in subprime risk Hubler had taken on showed up in Morgan Stanley’s risk reports inside a bucket marked “triple A”—which is to say, they might as well have been U.S.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis