as in comprehensive
covering everything or all important points
the president's state of the union speech is usually an omnibus look at the issues that the country is confronting
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as in bus
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as in anthology
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Recent Examples of omnibus
Todd Larsen,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Apr. 2026
In Trump’s omnibus budget bill in 2025, Trump appropriated $40 million from the Department of the Interior to support the sculpture garden.
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Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Feb. 2026
On Wednesday, the Senate debated and was expected to pass Senate Bill 298, a lengthy omnibus bill that, among other measures, repeals the 2024 law.
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Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
26 Feb. 2026
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The state legislature recently passed, and the governor is expected to sign, its omnibus energy bill, the Utility RELIEF Act, which includes several important data center provisions.
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Todd Larsen,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Apr. 2026
In Trump’s omnibus budget bill in 2025, Trump appropriated $40 million from the Department of the Interior to support the sculpture garden.
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Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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The omnibus also removes the harmonized EU civil liability regime and access to third-party representative actions, making victims’ ability to obtain justice contingent on national laws that may vary among member states.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Feb. 2026
On Wednesday, the Senate debated and was expected to pass Senate Bill 298, a lengthy omnibus bill that, among other measures, repeals the 2024 law.
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Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
26 Feb. 2026
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Without discussing too much in detail, councilmembers raised several potential alternatives during the meeting, including parking garage subsidies, downtown employee waivers and a comprehensive citywide review of parking programs.
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The first stage began in July 2025, when Meta announced comprehensive measures targeting accounts that repeatedly share unoriginal content without meaningful enhancement, building on enforcement actions that had already been taken against 500,000 accounts in the first half of the year.
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Gonzalez said a summary of the incident did not indicate that any occupants, other than the driver, were on the bus at the time of the crash.
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The company has also added stations to inspect class six and eight commercial trucks and buses along with new cameras for interior inspections for all vehicles.
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Lizzy Caplan is the latest addition to the debut season of Noah Hawley and Rob Mac‘s upcoming FX anthology series Far Cry.
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While the numbers of comedies on the ballot stayed almost level with last year (up very slightly to 71 from 69), dramas dropped from 126 in 2025 to 110 this year, and limited/anthology series are down to 31, from 44 last year.
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Many have prizes, billboards and screens playing panoramic videos on loop.
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Even cities like Paris have plenty of options for cooling off in summer, from swimming in the Seine to Emily in Paris famous pools like Molitor (plan to spend a full day and lunch at the panoramic rooftop restaurant).
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About half an hour later, a minibus with Moldovan license plates slammed into a truck that stopped on the highway following the first accident.
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Johannesburg — More than 10 suspects got out of a minibus and moved through a poor neighborhood near South Africa's biggest city while shooting at residents in a late-night attack that killed at least 12 people and wounded nine others, police said Wednesday.
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Over the course of the 2030s, the idea of telepathy will go from novel and futuristic to ubiquitous and mundane.
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The screenplay was adapted by Marguerite Roberts and Portis wrote the final scene to give the film a more positive ending than that of the novel, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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The surest way to move the fastest, have the greatest impact and capture the most value is to vertically integrate and execute on the full value chain end-to-end.
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For full daily and monthly horoscopes as well as expert readings, see our full Horoscopes experience.
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Evidence markers covered at least three shell casings in the road near the cars.
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After receiving the life insurance payout, Vander Meer allegedly bought SH and another youth group member a car.
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“Omnibus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omnibus. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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