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Examples of portal system in a Sentence
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More than 300,000 water customers – about 23% of total customers – were without drinking water Thursday morning, according to the island’s emergency portal system.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
Under the transfer portal system, athletes only have to submit their name into the portal to be transfer eligible, a change from the previous process that required permission from a coach, athletics administrator or other party to transfer.
—Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 13 Jan. 2023
Nearly 80,000 customers – about 6% – of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority were without water on Friday, according to the government’s emergency portal system website.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
Nearly 360,000 customers were experiencing intermittent water service or no service at all as of Thursday evening, according to the government’s emergency portal system.
—Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
In March 2021, Metro Government switched to an online portal system called NextRequest to handle the submission and fulfillment of city public records requests.
—Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal, 27 May 2022
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Word History
Etymology
portal vein
First Known Use
1754, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near portal system
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“Portal system.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portal%20system. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
portal system
noun
: a system of veins that begins and ends in capillaries see hepatic portal system, pituitary portal system
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