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porch

[pawrch, pohrch] / pɔrtʃ, poʊrtʃ /
NOUN
patio
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Sheen says, laughing, sitting on the back porch of his Malibu home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

On Friday the boy's mother -- named by media as Shauntai May Nickerson -- smoked a cigarette on the porch outside her apartment.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The court heard that in April 2025 Nigel Farage's partner found that damage had been caused to their main front door at their house and a bottle of lighter fluid was found in the porch.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

One of those leisurely stints on the porch led to Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” which Lambert co-wrote and co-produced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

It’s built like a house—a really, really big house—with two chimneys, a wraparound porch, and a weather vane on the roof.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Some houses in the neighborhood already had piles of sandbags sitting on their front porches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

“You can hit a lot of music porches pretty easily, so it makes for a great day.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Now every night, the roofs, parks, and porches of Havana fill with people lying on cardboard, mattresses, or directly on the ground.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

And some features that had previously been eliminated needed to be returned to the home, including original roofing, porches and even light switches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

“Good morning!” a cheerful, gray-mustached man greeted us from one of these porches.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling


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