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
They will be placed in a private enclosure equipped with portable air-conditioners and industrial fans.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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
“It looks like ‘chipflation’ has washed up on U.K. shores; portable device prices spiked by 22% month-on-month, the biggest monthly change since the series began in 2015,” the economist says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
I fix the blue latex gloves on my hands, double-checking that the Cal Stat is still hanging off the strap on my portable oxygen.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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
“We had portables, we had really crowded classes, at one point a classroom was on a stage.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Nintendo’s done this with portables for years, NPD analyst Mat Piscatella explains: Back in the day, Nintendo portable revisions would stabilize the demand curve and firm up ASPs.
From The Verge ● Jul. 6, 2021
How equipped are the portables to handle climate control?
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2020
The condemned area includes all of the portables, of course.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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