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Needless to say, there’s a lot going on in Butler’s busy, occasionally dizzying script, though compressing the approximately 550-page source material was surely no easy task.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Around 2,000 protesters gathered peacefully in Plaza Venezuela, a busy area of Caracas, and more demonstrations were held elsewhere in the country.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The horse carriages previously traveled through other parts of the city, but critics said their presence on busy streets posed a danger to the horses and the public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

When Beth Kobliner pitched her book “Get a Financial Life” to publishers in 1996, they told her that young people were too busy having fun to care about money.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Of course me and Glenn naturally did the work of ten, sweeping, polishing, fitting up the stovepipe: busy as bees, good as gold.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Charities say they are "busier than ever" helping people living in furniture poverty.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

But had not this week, “just because it’s been busier than normal, but I will talk to him at some point.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

"But I think in general terms the homelessness services are extremely busy, a lot busier... Case loads are extremely high and there are a lot more complexities with those presenting as homeless."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Besides, it was evidently close to a road busier than any they had known.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

This stretch of the Rio Grande was once one of the busiest crossing points on the US-Mexico border.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Erosion and slope damage have also caused problems over the years for one of California’s busiest rail corridors used by commuters via the Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink and freight operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Flyers can save more than $250 on Thanksgiving travel by avoiding just one date, Hopper found: Nov. 29, the Sunday after the holiday and one of the busiest travel days of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

It follows a warning earlier this week from Heathrow's chief executive, who said that not building a third runway at the UK's busiest airport would be a "huge missed opportunity".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The inn was the busiest building in the village, mostly due to the pub on its first floor.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

In addition to helping customers with their plant selections, Mejia also rings them up at the register and then busies herself with tidying and organizing the shop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

She and care worker Michelle Rispin laugh and joke with each other, as Michelle busies herself checking Kath has the food and help she needs.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023

Jack, meanwhile, busies his hands calling up images on his impressive machine.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2023

Instead, Akpan, who lives in Gainesville, Fla., and teaches creative writing at the University of Florida, busies himself with Ekong’s trials and tribulations in New York.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2021

She glances between our faces, then busies herself refilling the napkin holders on the counter, bracelets of silver and turquoise clinking against the metal.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

This is not the first time Ford has busied itself with defence work.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

That is something Mr. Nguyen experienced personally when he busied himself pursuing publication in highly ranked journals instead of writing about what he truly loved: the philosophy of games.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Local people busied themselves with clearing away the rubble and recovering a few possessions.

From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026

As Garcia busied himself with “The Grateful Dead Movie,” hoping a theatrical release of October 1974 shows at the Winterland would satisfy audiences wanting to see live Dead, Lesh entered an aimless period.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024

To the billiard-room I hastened: the click of balls and the hum of voices resounded thence; Mr. Rochester, Miss Ingram, the two Misses Eshton, and their admirers, were all busied in the game.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Really though, you are only busying yourself and putting off the inevitable trek back home for a few more minutes.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025

But with high-functioning depression, people are avoiding by busying themselves so they don’t have time to feel, and when they sit still, they feel restless and empty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

Murdoch was also busying himself growing his operations in the US, where he gained a foothold in 1976 with US tabloid the New York Post.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023

Eastern time when Vande Hei, Shkaplerov and Dubrov could be seen busying themselves with procedures that needed to be completed before the hatch could be sealed.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

“She’s so tall,” says Gat, busying himself with boxes of tea, jasmine and English Breakfast and so on.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart