portable
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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
The account is also portable, meaning if you change employers, you can take it with you.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
But such is the scale of the heat that people are voting with their wallets - demand for portable air con units is through the roof, regardless of grants and the environment.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
A small portable air-conditioning unit using about 1kW for seven hours a night over 30 nights would cost around £54.83 in electricity alone, before buying the unit.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Instead, Edmond Locard asked all Lyon organ-grinders—street performers who played a sort of portable organ—to report to the police station.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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
Aya Neo is a relatively young company that formed in 2020, but it’s already put out a few well-regarded portables, and the Next is its first big redesign.
From The Verge ● Mar. 18, 2022
Like Northshore, the Lake Washington district — which has grown by 31% since 2008 — also wants to build classrooms and reduce its use of portables.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
The whole school will be in portables until the renovations are completed.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2020
But then they both turn the corner of one of the portables and join me under the magnolia tree like regular.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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