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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

The family of a man who was crushed to death in a freak accident fear they may never find out what caused the pop-up urinal he was working on to drop suddenly.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

His inquest heard it took two hours for a crane to arrive to lift the urinal off him.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

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

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

Danny was urinating into one of the urinals.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok




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