waiting room
noun
: a room (as in a doctor's office) for the use of persons (such as patients) who are waiting
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The Danish toymaker has donated 10,000 models of an MRI set — which features an MRI scanner and equipment, plus a waiting room, along with minifigures — to 432 hospitals in 13 countries to ease the worries of children about to undergo an MRI.
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Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Running multiple browser tabs or manually refreshing the Magic Key sales page could boot you from the virtual waiting room.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
As a young endocrinologist in the 1980s, David Klonoff was typically greeted with a full waiting room at the diabetes clinic at the University of California, San Francisco.
—Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Its general sensibility seems more Superstore than The Office, down to the interstitial montages of customers acting up in the perpetually overcrowded waiting room.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
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Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Running multiple browser tabs or manually refreshing the Magic Key sales page could boot you from the virtual waiting room.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
As a young endocrinologist in the 1980s, David Klonoff was typically greeted with a full waiting room at the diabetes clinic at the University of California, San Francisco.
—Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Its general sensibility seems more Superstore than The Office, down to the interstitial montages of customers acting up in the perpetually overcrowded waiting room.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for waiting room
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“Waiting room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waiting%20room. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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