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[loo] / lu /


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"Close the toilet door and have a bit of separation - by all means have a joint project but that shouldn't be going to the loo," she laughs.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025

Ahead of the sale, Sotheby’s expert David Galperin said the house will install the golden loo in a fourth-floor bathroom within its new Manhattan headquarters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Unlike a wearable, which is easy enough to leave on your nightstand, the loo is something you can’t forget to use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

The purported health risks of extended loo time have long circulated through doctors’ offices and news articles.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025

After Vivian arrived on Tower Hill Road, Branwell had also started calling the toilet the loo.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

Reflecting on her political career in 2016, she said: "I never went round looking for problems so I never found them. The only problem I found as a woman MP were there were insufficient loos."

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

“Have you seen our loos? They’re literally in a wooden shed and they’re cold,” Gyngell told the Telegraph, adding: “Service can be very haphazard and there’s nothing fancy or clever about our food.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

Once she read the part, Jones messaged Wood on Instagram before a chance meeting in the loos at the Baftas helped seal the deal.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

From loos to cheese, a Paddington statue to comedian Jimmy Cricket's wellies, it seems almost anything can attract the attention of would-be thieves.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025

The corridors jam with weary war travelers, and the loos overflow with stink.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

It looed like progress, so I reached out to Marc Mauer over at The Sentencing Project for his take on the reduction in federal prison population. 

From Forbes ● Oct. 2, 2014

Any player interfering with the cards during the deal is looed, but the cards are not re-dealt, unless they have been mixed, or a card has been exposed.

From Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice by W. H. Peel

The player who throws up his cards after the leading card is played, is looed.

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous

If neither player receives a higher card of the same suit as that turned up all are looed, and the amount in the pool remains, being included in the stakes for the next deal. 

From Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice by W. H. Peel

With ace of trumps only, the first player must lead it, or be looed.

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous

“Giving him the chance to come up here and show what he’s capable of doing on Saturday is also something we’re really looing forward to,” Marmol said.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2022

Crappie are fair with jigs looing for structure and brush piles.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 21, 2020




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