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  • Buckling up is a great way to start a marriage and not buckling up is a horrible way to end one.

    Even Newlyweds Know It’s Cool to Buckle Up - The Retroist 2009

  • Buckling Debt: The number of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. topped 1.5 million last year, up 9% from 2009.

    House to Vote on Bill to Repeal Health-Care Law 2011

  • Buckling under crippling debts, state and local governments are unlikely to file for bankruptcy, but the alternatives could be worse, says WSJ's David Wessel.

    Local Debts Defy Easy Solution 2010

  • Buckling his loose-legged pants around him, a rapidly awakening Baiuntu was bawling orders in every direction.

    The Cat is a Metaphor 2010

  • KAYE: Buckling down to fight the Yemen threat, the head of U.S.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010 2010

  • Rydbeck joked that he used to worry about the day newspapers would carry the headline, "Actor Who Played Crash Dummy Died for Not Buckling Up."

    Crash dummies' body parts and costumes land at American History museum 2010

  • Buckling down and studying would of course help, but in many cases, he noted, the girls were simply too out of sorts to do so:

    College Girls 2007

  • Buckling down and studying would of course help, but in many cases, he noted, the girls were simply too out of sorts to do so:

    College Girls 2007

  • Buckling down and studying would of course help, but in many cases, he noted, the girls were simply too out of sorts to do so:

    College Girls 2007

  • Buckling down and studying would of course help, but in many cases, he noted, the girls were simply too out of sorts to do so:

    College Girls 2007

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