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laptop

[lap-top] / ˈlæpˌtɒp /






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I will admit, at times I wanted to hurl my laptop into the Pacific.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

In this pushback against devices, the district would “encourage schools to utilize laptop carts and/or computer labs for second through fifth grade, while reducing the use of one-to-one devices.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

Even in the face of soaring component costs, the company launched its budget laptop, the MacBook Neo, earlier this year.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

"It'll be like a 14-hour day for me, and I get home and first thing I do is get into bed and open up my laptop and start editing. So yeah, it's a crazy life."

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Once they’d settled into their room, Sydney lay on her bed working on her speech while Brooklyn and Kat huddled around a laptop to test out their latest weather models.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti




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