as in anterooms
formal
a room placed before and leading into a chief apartment and serving as a waiting area
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Recent Examples of antechambers
The locker rooms and antechambers behind the scenes are drab and plain.
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Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antechambers
Noun
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Such underwater lounges are growing in popularity, with yards such as Feadship embracing the trend.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
10 Apr. 2026
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What started as a productivity tool — keeping tech workers on-site for lunch — and later morphed into a recruitment tool for employers, is now pitching itself as an amenity on par with lounges, gyms and roof decks in service of the back-to-office movement.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Some members of Altman’s executive team camped out in the hallways of the house.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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On Saturday night, after Reed extended his exceptional tournament run with 17 points and 11 rebounds against Illinois, Hurley ran into Reed’s former coach – along with the rest of the Fab Five – in the hallways of Lucas Oil Stadium.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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From pre-war apartment building vestibules to farmhouse bathrooms to kitchen backsplashes, penny tiles have graced spaces of all kinds since their inception in the early twentieth century.—
Heather Bien,
The Spruce,
8 Mar. 2026
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Police have blocked the ATM lanes off with yellow crime scene tape, and multiple agencies, including Dallas police and Texas Rangers, can be seen searching the area around the open vestibules.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Antechambers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antechambers. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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