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Noun
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Missouri Town’s many structures were selected to provide a comprehensive view of the time period and include homes, businesses, a church, livery stable, school, tavern/inn, stagecoach stop, outhouse and smokehouse.—
Janice Phelan,
Kansas City Star,
16 July 2025 -
Each outhouse must contain a toilet seat and a roll of toilet paper—and be fully operational.—
Teaghan Skulszki,
Outside Online,
4 July 2025
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In the time of the Founding Fathers the privy was also known as the necessary, being so instrumental to every person.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Apr. 2025
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The upside for the league is that major transfers are not just the privy of a select few clubs.—
Peter Rutzler,
The Athletic,
19 Aug. 2024
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Not a single john was named in the conspiracy, despite there likely being hundreds.—
Anita ChabriaColumnist,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Oct. 2022
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The forced execution of Flora by Joanie behind closed whorehouse doors evokes Trixie’s murder of an abusive john in the pilot (his corpse becoming pig chow).—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2021
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Here there will be a tiled shower, a soaking tub, dual sink vanity and a separate room for the commode.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2025
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Thompson suggests a half-wall between the sink and commode that can be removed to make way for a wheelchair.—
LEW SICHELMAN,
Miami Herald,
29 May 2025
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“Jakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jakes. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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