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laptop

[lap-top] / ˈlæpˌtɒp /






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Now, you download an app, open a chat window and start directing your agent to run digital errands, day or night, right on your phone or laptop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Atomic change suggests that the soul, like the mind, can be reconfigured as gradually as we might update a laptop one key and chip at a time.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Together, those detectors have a light-sensitive area approximately the size of a laptop screen.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Hilton’s family said they expected the internet personality would remain in residential treatment for at least several more weeks, potentially longer, and does not have his phone or laptop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

I was about to close my laptop so I could go get some clothes on and see what my mom wanted when a message pinged back.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

That amount of computing power is equivalent to running five million laptops at the same time for an entire year.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

On Navarrete’s desk were two Mac laptops and another computer, all logged into immigration courts across the Southland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

That attack resulted in a global disruption to Stryker’s Microsoft systems, which caused employee cellphones and laptops to stop working.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

In the last 20 years, the highest number of incidents was related to battery packs, with 84 cases related to laptops.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

My peeps are the kids who don’t have phones and laptops and money for lunch.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko




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