common room
noun
1
: a lounge available to all members of a residential community
2
: a room in a college for faculty use
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While the majority of the rebel players are slaughtered on sight, Gi-hun is spared and placed back in the central common room.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 June 2025
No one sitting anywhere in the colossal common room, with its gleaming pine floors and Persian rugs, there was no one around the open fire, no one in the table game area or the tea nook, no one seated anywhere, despite a number of plump, chintz possibilities.
—Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Bathrooms are one of the most common rooms that need updating, and when done correctly, simple changes can significantly boost your property’s value and appeal to potential buyers.
—Ann Hoke, USA Today, 20 May 2025
Paintings by Spanish muralist Josep Maria Sert fill the common rooms, and visitors from far and wide come to try the Ampurdán tasting menu at the hotel’s El Mas restaurant, where large windows offer panoramic vistas of the storybook-pretty village of Pals.
—Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 June 2025
No one sitting anywhere in the colossal common room, with its gleaming pine floors and Persian rugs, there was no one around the open fire, no one in the table game area or the tea nook, no one seated anywhere, despite a number of plump, chintz possibilities.
—Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Bathrooms are one of the most common rooms that need updating, and when done correctly, simple changes can significantly boost your property’s value and appeal to potential buyers.
—Ann Hoke, USA Today, 20 May 2025
Paintings by Spanish muralist Josep Maria Sert fill the common rooms, and visitors from far and wide come to try the Ampurdán tasting menu at the hotel’s El Mas restaurant, where large windows offer panoramic vistas of the storybook-pretty village of Pals.
—Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
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“Common room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20room. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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