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portable

[pawr-tuh-buhl, pohr-] / ˈpɔr tə bəl, ˈpoʊr- /


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Portable restrooms and hydration stations will be available.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Provisional government figures recorded by the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme show 1,446 discoveries in England in 2024 - up from 1,266 the previous year.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Portable mortgages would enable sellers to retain their current loan when purchasing a new home, offering flexibility.

From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025

The most important of these was “The Portable Faulkner,” a perceptively organized anthology of novel excerpts and short stories, for Viking Press in 1946.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

The engineers condemned everything “within a hundred-yard radius of the focal point of the sinkhole,” which was right under Portable 19.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor




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