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Recent Examples of commode
Cost overruns for cargo plane commodes have captured headlines before.
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Toilets and other objects for relieving oneself are also on display, including an ornate commode styled after a stacks of books, and porcelain portable chamber pots that resemble fancy gravy boats, but were in fact designed for women in the 18th century to relieve themselves in public.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Accessibility: Several rooms have roll-in showers with bars and fold-down seats, accessible commode, entry, and bathroom doors, commode bars, raised vanity sink for roll-in access, plus hearing and communication features.
—Emily Hochberg, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
While serving a 10-day sentence for drunk driving, Miller used a portable commode jailers brought to his cell.
—Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 2 June 2024
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Toilets and other objects for relieving oneself are also on display, including an ornate commode styled after a stacks of books, and porcelain portable chamber pots that resemble fancy gravy boats, but were in fact designed for women in the 18th century to relieve themselves in public.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Accessibility: Several rooms have roll-in showers with bars and fold-down seats, accessible commode, entry, and bathroom doors, commode bars, raised vanity sink for roll-in access, plus hearing and communication features.
—Emily Hochberg, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
While serving a 10-day sentence for drunk driving, Miller used a portable commode jailers brought to his cell.
—Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 2 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commode
Noun
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Households that had or purchased bidet toilets or bidet seats during those difficult days were sitting pretty.—
Jamie Gold,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Models for the Italian label Valentino waited in mock toilet stalls before showing their clothes.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The old lavatories were taken out soon after the Joneses settled in and the space is now a dark room.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2025
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Forget the days of having to wait in line for a bathroom, your screen can indicate if a lavatory is available before having to stand in the aisle.—
Chris Dong,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Bidets have an additional benefit in helping someone who has mobility or balance issues handle their own hygiene needs without a caregiver helping them into a bath or shower each trip to the bathroom.—
Jamie Gold,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Within days in March and April in 2020, Wheesung was found passed out in public bathrooms near syringes and vials containing etomidate, another sleep-inducing drug similar to propofol, according to BBC News.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
11 Mar. 2025
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Chiara de Rege’s recent client, a professional couple with a growing family, were charmed by a wall covering from the designer’s Maison C line, cladding a washroom in their former home with the pattern.—
Katherine Burns Olson,
Architectural Digest,
24 Jan. 2025
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Flora pushed herself into the nearest washroom, locked the door, and began to cry.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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President Donald Trump and his allies have taken aim at transgender rights in particular by seeking to ban transgender women from participating in women's sports or using women's restrooms and by barring transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Instead, when a seat mate gets up, use that as an opportunity to use the restroom and stretch your legs.—
Rebecca Deurlein,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In the demo at MWC, a Google representative asked Gemini what glaze would suit a clay pot and launched the camera within Gemini Live to point at the glaze samples.—
Simon Hill,
WIRED,
4 Mar. 2025
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The Trump administration's decision to put the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ice has left a $100 million pot of money intended for borrowers allegedly harmed by the student loan servicer NavientNAVI.O sitting in limbo, according to an advocacy organization.—
Douglas Gillison,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This single-story home offers a capacious living environment with its six bedrooms and two baths.—
Bay Area Home Report,
The Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2025
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Their range includes face creams, hair care, makeup, bronzers, bath oils, and deodorant, all crafted to support skin health naturally.—
Julie Loffredi,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There a tour guide will show you the baths, Cirta gate, the library, the forum, the Roman latrines, Timgad’s theater, the capitol building, market of Sertius, and the Trajan Arch.—
Cat Sposato,
AFAR Media,
26 Feb. 2025
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But their breakthrough came from the latrine, which had been built within a larger timber building.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Commode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commode. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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