Example Sentences

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Federal aid during the pandemic let districts buy laptops and tablets, and a multibillion-dollar ed-tech industry promised to transform teaching and help students recover lost ground.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

“The laptops coming at the end of the year are not going to be cheap.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026

Taiwan, the US ally and self-governed island that Beijing claims, produces the majority of the world's most advanced chips, the tiny processors that sit inside smartphones, laptops and AI data centres.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

On the other side are the companies that buy that memory and build it into things they sell: game consoles, phones, laptops and the components inside a desktop computer.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

“What did I tell you about laptops at the kitchen table?”

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny