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omnibus

[om-nuh-buhs, -buhs] / ˈɒm nəˌbʌs, -bəs /
NOUN
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The ESAs were part of an omnibus bill that included provisions to raise teacher pay and extend the state’s literacy reforms to other grades.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2026

The projects have been sped by a deregulation campaign that began in 2020 with an "omnibus law" that reformed dozens of regulations at once to boost investment and create jobs in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

"One of the secrets I honestly think, is it's 15 minutes every night and then that big omnibus on a Sunday," he told the BBC's Nick Owen.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2025

The act is the only provision of the omnibus package that the court struck down.

From Slate Feb. 24, 2025

I dodged the horse pulling a long omnibus on the center track.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The solution most cities settled on was horse-drawn streetcars and omnibuses.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

The clean, quiet electrobus looked set to be stiff competition for the city's lumbering, petrol-guzzling omnibuses.

From Nature Sep. 26, 2017

In that pre-automobile era, horses were public animals, seen daily by urbanites as they pulled milk wagons and omnibuses.

From Washington Post Aug. 1, 2017

Anthologies, omnibuses, whatever you want to call them: Those cinematic conglomerations of disconnected or slightly interwoven stories are what I’m talking about.

From Washington Times Jun. 23, 2015

The girl looked dutifully, but Sylvia thought it was more amusing to look at the people struggling to mount omnibuses already full.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie

The excursion was to start from the church, where already there was quite an array of omnibusses drawn up as much in the shade as possible.

From 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother by Mrs. E. E. Boyd

The streets resounded with the rattling wheels of omnibusses, cabs and various vehicles, as they bore the gay and fashionable part of the village to the splendid hall.

From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Abigail Stanley Hanna

He stood hesitating, leisurely inspecting the flashing ranks of vehicles—depot wagons, omnibusses, and motor cars already eddying around a dusty gravel drive centred by the conventional railroad flower bed and fountain.

From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

More coaches, omnibusses, waggons, vans, and other conveyances, crowd the streets of London than any other city in the world.

From The World's Fair by Anonymous

You were just stepping into one of those very omnibusses you have since seen fit to decry.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various




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