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bucket

[buhk-it] / ˈbʌk ɪt /
NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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"The knee joint, which is also the most common location for osteoarthritis, naturally acts like a leaky bucket," Liu says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

“We bucket cash in three ways,” Driscoll said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Outside a nearby shack Linkie listens with interest as she cleans clothes in a large metal bucket.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“It’s really a drop in the bucket when we’re talking about statewide human-wildlife conflicts,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

One morning in the early spring, Papa came in from doing the chores with an empty milk bucket in his hand.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Standing before a 20-foot wall of bright blue buckets, he tells one, facing the wrong way, that they don’t carry buckets, that they’re old-fashioned and no one uses them anymore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Their work with portfolio companies typically falls into three buckets: helping plan and execute their next fundraise; building and scaling financial operating models; and hiring finance personnel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“This is the most behavioral-finance approach,” Chatzky said — because when there’s turmoil, you have enough in the cash and fixed-income buckets that you don’t have to touch your stocks for 10 years.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

The family initially boiled kettles to fill up buckets to wash and clean the dishes, but they've now invested in a camping shower.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Some burial societies poured buckets of water over the dead to ritually purify them, but ours had a mikveh built specifically for that purpose.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Race organiser Duncan Smith said: "It's been a brilliant day with fantastic weather, after three years when it's absolutely bucketed down with rain."

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

“I think we need a more personalized approach for each individual in determining when they should actually start screening—not this bucketed start age,” Bea says.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023

He said the Fed would revisit how firms were bucketed by size when it came to supervision and regulation.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Any captured water is bucketed to toilets for flushing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2018

I let Charley out, and suddenly an angry streak of gray burned across the clearing in the pines and bucketed into the house.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

A fourth person, the pilot of a helicopter helping with "bucketing" operations, died after a crash in the neighbouring Alberta province last week.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2023

Choosing value-based strategies, dividend stocks and bucketing approaches can help you navigate several market scenarios, Saglimbene said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022

“The water was still thigh-high at 7 a.m. and those who parked their cars in the streets were in panic because their vehicles were submerged … Other residents were bucketing out water from their homes.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2022

“Generally the tiered model is a great approach and some of their general bucketing makes a lot of logical sense,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

He was glad they hadn’t waited for the rain to come bucketing down; it was slippery enough as it was.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook


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