as in doors
a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened
the main portal to the estate is an elaborate wrought iron gate on the side facing the road
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Recent Examples of portals
Currently, insurance companies utilize online portals for customers to submit claims.
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Matt Emma, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
City officials are completing permitting and working out logistical details with San Diego Gas & Electric to install between 750 and 800 charging portals at 59 locations — 20 library branches and 39 pools or recreation centers.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
The University of Tennessee Medical Center will pay out a settlement to those who had patient portals between January 1, 2025, and September 30, 2025.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
At the time, a colleague and I were investigating why online recruitment portals were bursting with job ads when data suggested the formal labor market was shrinking.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
As portals to continuously evolving data, macroscopes can serve as windows to the dynamics of any terrain — personal or professional, local or global — offering key insights on our surroundings and even our place in the universe.
—Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
Nobody wanted to talk on the telephone anymore, but chefs and restaurant managers didn’t exactly know how to build their own websites and payment portals.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
It’s also updated in real-time throughout the year and its data is gathered by close monitoring of individual governments’ portals.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
It’s also updated in real-time throughout the year and its data is gathered by close monitoring of individual governments’ portals.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Matt Emma, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
City officials are completing permitting and working out logistical details with San Diego Gas & Electric to install between 750 and 800 charging portals at 59 locations — 20 library branches and 39 pools or recreation centers.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
The University of Tennessee Medical Center will pay out a settlement to those who had patient portals between January 1, 2025, and September 30, 2025.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
At the time, a colleague and I were investigating why online recruitment portals were bursting with job ads when data suggested the formal labor market was shrinking.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
As portals to continuously evolving data, macroscopes can serve as windows to the dynamics of any terrain — personal or professional, local or global — offering key insights on our surroundings and even our place in the universe.
—Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
Nobody wanted to talk on the telephone anymore, but chefs and restaurant managers didn’t exactly know how to build their own websites and payment portals.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
It’s also updated in real-time throughout the year and its data is gathered by close monitoring of individual governments’ portals.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
It’s also updated in real-time throughout the year and its data is gathered by close monitoring of individual governments’ portals.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for portals
Noun
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Fortunately, Marty, posing as a federal agent here to arrest Lee for harassment, bursts through the One Well doors in the nick of time.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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For Starbucks patrons at an upscale mall in Beijing’s central business district – the same complex where the company first opened its doors in China in 1999 – the news doesn’t come as a complete surprise.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Listed for just under $15 million with Susan Breitenbach of the Corcoran Group, the smart-home system runs almost invisibly in the background, controlling everything from the gates and lighting to the solar array and backup generator.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
4 Nov. 2025
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But the public first knew Cheney as, along with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, the quietly confident, visibly competent public face of the 1990-91 Gulf War that ejected Iraqi troops from Kuwait (and the gates of Saudi Arabia) in just 100 hours of ground combat.—
Karl Vick,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Portals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portals. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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