lavatory
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But the video features the 29-year-old Vermonter singing from the lavatory of his hotel bathroom; with a hashtag reading "explosive diarrhoea".
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
One of the residents admitted to breaking the lavatory bowl in October 2023.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
Mr. Fleurizard then made his way toward the back of the plane, and he went into a lavatory there, according to court records.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Investigators said that about midway through the Sept. 2, 2023, flight from Charlotte to Boston, the 14-year-old got up to use the main cabin lavatory nearest to her seat but found it was occupied.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
After lunch, he got a small paint brush and a can of black enamel, and locked himself in the lavatory, where he painted the alphabet in code on the wall.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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The facility hosts 85 beds with the capacity to expand to 100 and includes a mix of dormitories, lavatories, a kitchen and laundry facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
He urges athletes to choose window seats in the middle of the aircraft, away from the most-trafficked areas—the front, where everyone enters, and the rear, near the galley and the lavatories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
Others associated the slogan with demand for lavatories.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025
Plus, onboard wheelchairs need to go frontward into lavatories and have proper wheel locks, cushioning and restraints.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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