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Messi is now in the same chat room as Tom Brady, LeBron James and Novak Djokovic as pro athletes who can still do it late in their athletic lives.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026 The tsunami of interest hasn’t been limited to just Hollywood insiders, TV nerds geeking out in chat rooms, or TikTokers sharing clips.—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 18 June 2026 Sports, someone commented about their game, and Klein quickly fell into the world of early ORGs, which were largely played on chat rooms.—Charlotte Walsh, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026 The non-meat use of the term came from the online chat room community, which by the late 1980s was already using it to denote a mass influx of data into their chat rooms that could trigger a computer crash and/or annoy chat room users.—Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for chat room