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urinal

[yoor-uh-nl] / ˈjʊər ə nl /


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The piece proved an immediate hit, with critics comparing it to ready-made master Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 porcelain urinal, “Fountain.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Di Fabrizio accused him of missing the urinal and peeing on them at the Oscars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

Mr Holding, from Beckenham in south-east London, became trapped underneath the telescopic urinal, which dropped on him while he was working on the device, his inquest was told.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

Smoove: I don’t know if you guys have ever been through this, but I was at a urinal …

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

My mouth felt like I’d gargled used urinal cakes, and my cracked lips stung.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

In the case of public toilets, such a justification "does not appear to exist" since the cost of building, maintaining and cleaning cubicles and urinals is basically the same, the professor said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

I base this not on any grand political theory but on how many times I stood next to members of Congress at urinals at DCA during my years living in D.C.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2025

The urinals — see the particularly majestic Deco “Radio” Adamsez iteration in the gentleman’s cloakroom of the old Derry and Toms building, Kensington — elevate the form to art even before Duchamp.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

Leeds Festival ticket-holders have described Friday as the "worst day ever" after 60mph winds blew tents away and demolished urinals.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024

While you shined shoes, I learned, you also kept watch on customers inside, leaving the urinals.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey


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