portable
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Pumps, portable evaporative coolers and portable heaters must be returned within seven days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
And there were portable air conditioning units onboard, which he said were not effective.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Harp has been dubbed the "human printer" -- thanks to her role carrying a portable machine to print out documents that Trump asks for.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Fortunately, a second portable toilet area deeper inside the venue had working sinks and held up well throughout the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“What’s all this,” asked Moran, “about a portable TV?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Built into a refurbished shipping container, it’s filled with everything from tiny Walkman-style portables to colorful, number-flip clock radios and, naturally, boomboxes of all sizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
“We had portables, we had really crowded classes, at one point a classroom was on a stage.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Just beware of the comparably low 30-watt limit on this charger, which isn’t sufficient to provide enough juice for more powerful portables like the MacBook Pro.
From The Verge ● Oct. 27, 2021
“School! Cahokia funded some portables in the old schoolyard. It’s only two days a week so far, the rest is online.”
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2020
It showed the whole campus, then it zeroed in on the field of portables and the focal point of the sinkhole.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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