Thesaurus results for BUSES

buses 1 of 2

noun

variants also busses

plural of bus

as in cars

a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels this old bus is still running—but barely

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buses

2 of 2

verb

variants or busses

present tense third-person singular of bus

as in coaches

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Recent Examples of buses

Noun

More than 4,000 of the electric buses are now operating across the country. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Guests then piled onto Routemaster buses to head to the party at the gymnasium, where two of the couple’s friends DJed and a soul band played. — Jessica Salter, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2026 According to a statement, the Thames River Heritage Park Water Taxi and shuttle buses will provide free transportation between the two venues, allowing attendees to park once and enjoy activities at both sites. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2026 Valley Vax bought ads on the sides of buses in Western Massachusetts to promote the site, with the faces and testimonials of local doctors including Snyder. — Karen Brown, NPR, 30 July 2026 The vehicles, which date back to the 1960s, resemble buses that raise to dock at concourses and lower to travel, are often packed with mostly standing passengers and move among airport traffic. — Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 29 July 2026 Regional buses from around the area, including Denver and the airport, connect directly into this Boulder system. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 29 July 2026 As with any Olympics, the 15,000 athletes and 25,000 broadcasters and journalists will ride buses in dedicated lanes. — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 24 July 2026 Kansas City rented more than 200 buses for its transportation system and counted more than 215,000 ConnectKC riders, including 145,000 who used the service to the stadium. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026

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Noun

The corridor has the state’s highest congestion levels, seeing over 160,000 cars a day, according to NCDOT.

— DJ Simmons August 1, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
The department is looking to buy eight Skydio X10 drones from Axon, the same company the department contracts with to surveil cars in the city.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of cars

Verb

Daniel Miressi is a former professional hockey player who coaches youth hockey and has worked in the hospitality industry.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
In his own line of work, he could easily be mistaken for a Dan Sullivan who coaches entrepreneurs, or a Danny Sullivan who works at Google.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of coaches

Noun

This pillow is designed for gaming chairs, office chairs and automobiles.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 31 July 2026
Kumamoto and other parts of the Kyushu region have increasingly become key production sites for automobiles and semiconductors, raising concerns over a possible hit to the economy.

— USA Today, USA Today, 30 July 2026

Definition of automobiles

Verb

The President frequently jets down to his Palm Beach property on weekends.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
Instead of Paris this time, the film jets off to another fabulous destination besides New York — Milan — for a huge fashion expo where Lady Gaga gets to perform and even exchange swipes with Miranda.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of jets

Noun

The case was first launched in April 2009, when Smith and a companion were hunting on snow machines and the elderly man’s machine broke through the ice covering the Ungalikthluk River, not far from Togiak, and sank.

— Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
Once machines can perform routine intellectual labor, entire classes of office work could face the same pressure that mechanization brought to manual trades.

— Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of machines

Noun

That includes carbon-ceramic brakes, standard Magnetic Ride Control suspension, and even optional carbon fiber wheels, all wrapped by the widebody shape that gives the Grand Sport and Grand Sport X a more aggressive look than the base Stingray.

— Tim Stevens, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2026
Automobile horns echoed here and there in the distance, and as the government railway train departed the station under the bridge, a string of small lights heralded the far-off clacking of its wheels.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of wheels

Verb

Traveling such vast distances between our solar system's most remote objects means New Horizons often cruises for months at a time with little to do other than passively collect data.

— Brett Tingley, Space.com, 8 July 2026
The third main character, a livestreamer named Jake Deal, cruises the night looking for chaos while narrating to his audience.

— Carolyn Kellogg, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

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