Thesaurus results for ANTECHAMBERS

antechambers

noun

plural of antechamber

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. — Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025

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Premium and business travelers spend lavishly on hotels, ground transport, lounges, dining and experiences, and book most of that adjacent value somewhere else.

— Somit Goyal, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
And from faculty lounges today comes a gigantic rejection of the Humphrey-to-Obama synthesis.

— David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

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To that end, the firm drew inspiration from the shapes of farmland structures and conceived a cluster of interconnected buildings that flow from one to another with a series of hallways.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
Immigrants crowded waiting rooms and spilled into hallways as clerks raced to process around 100 people scheduled for an administrative hearing that morning.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

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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
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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