portable
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A hard-boiled egg is something else entirely: firm, portable, reliable, tucked into lunchboxes or sliced over a salad.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
Bristol-based start-up NPK Recovery collects urine from portable toilets during festivals and events, transforming it into fertiliser to help grass grow back on the fields afterwards.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
He maintains, for instance, that Hinduism never spread as Buddhism or Christianity did primarily because it lacked portable written texts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
She was attending an event, along with her father, at a "major munitions factory" that produces new pistols and other "portable light arms", Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
But the Gustanos and the guards—and the portable spotlight the guards carried—were getting closer and closer.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Vocabulary from history writings about the Triangle Factory Fire
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