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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

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

I said, No. 1, don’t talk to me while we’re at the urinal and then really?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Elsewhere, there's an outdoor pool, a gym upholstered in reindeer leather, and a workshop-come-nightclub, complete with a large metal urinal.

From BBC ● May 5, 2024

The urinal was an almost unimaginable luxury after five and a half years of crusted buckets.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

The tribunal also heard the women's toilets were "rebadged" as a WC in January 2025, but no change was made to the men's facilities because they contained urinals.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

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

The men’s bathroom was like a girls’ except there were three urinals in a row, and only one toilet.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt


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