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portable

adjective as in easily transported

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A few spots down, Prater’s colleagues Michael Jordan, 32, and Jalil Hunt, 34, passed the time in a tent stocked with a TV and a PlayStation portable.

He said work was being conducted around-the-clock with nighttime shifts illuminated by portable stadium lights.

But on the streets of Havana and Hialeah, Miami, reparto is inescapable, pulsing from balconies and portable speakers on the beach.

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It’s an altered portable television set, stood on its side, with nothing but a bright white vertical line shining on its screen.

As much as this is a handheld Xbox, it could also be described as a portable computer running Windows - all the downsides of PC gaming are present here, but so are the upsides.

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