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  • present tense form of bucket (3rd person singular).
  • plural of bucket.

buckets

NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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“It mostly came down to using shovels and buckets and hands, things like that,” Espy said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

A group of volunteers passes buckets of rubble from hand to hand in long lines.

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

Households are being asked to use watering cans or buckets for activities such as watering gardens, filling paddling pools or washing cars.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

For investors hunting the Tier 1 suppliers of physical AI, the layers Nvidia is wiring up sort into a few buckets.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

“Got some more remnants for you to sort,” she said without looking up, pointing to the buckets.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry



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