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Recent Examples of roommate
The film follows hopeful, naive college freshman Devon, who asks the cool and confident Celeste to be her roommate.
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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
Those problems include roommate tension, cohabitating with a partner, dealing with a shitty boss, anxiety, and sobriety, all rendered in the clean art style that made Hanawalt famous on BoJack Horseman.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Turan hands me off to his roommate, Rory Carmichael, a genial 39-year-old engineer.
—Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, at Spelman, Vernice swiftly dives into a romance with her roommate, Joette, even as she gets set up with a wealthy alumna’s son, a lawyer eager to get married.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
Those problems include roommate tension, cohabitating with a partner, dealing with a shitty boss, anxiety, and sobriety, all rendered in the clean art style that made Hanawalt famous on BoJack Horseman.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Turan hands me off to his roommate, Rory Carmichael, a genial 39-year-old engineer.
—Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, at Spelman, Vernice swiftly dives into a romance with her roommate, Joette, even as she gets set up with a wealthy alumna’s son, a lawyer eager to get married.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roommate
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This willful overreach is more or less business as usual for Albarn and his old housemate Hewlett, who, by conceiving this cartoon combo of multiracial punks in 1998, advanced a vision of pop hybridity that anticipated our age of cultural superabundance.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2026
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Levy allegedly claimed that a housemate may have jumped on her.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The cast includes Black Ops star Hammed Animashaun, Emma Sidi, who played Rose Matafeo’s flatmate in Starstruck, and Al Nash, a viral comic who satirizes social media tropes.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
6 Feb. 2026
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This dilemma was inspired during lockdown, when my flatmate was listening to the audiobook of Bleak House.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Two teenage boys who used artificial intelligence to create fake nude photos of their classmates at a tony private school in Pennsylvania received probation Wednesday after dozens of victims described the images’ traumatizing effect on them.—
Mark Scolforo,
Fortune,
25 Mar. 2026
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Now the series, which stars Owen Cooper as a young teenager arrested for the murder of a female classmate, has picked up 12 BAFTA nominations, including for Cooper, who will go head-to-head in the supporting actor category with co-star Ashley Walters.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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That’s because Rhapsody was a subtenant of Giordano’s, the national pizza chain that closed in 2022 after less than a year in the space.—
Max Scheinblum,
Denver Post,
26 Aug. 2025
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The plaintiffs alleged that MTS’s manager of real estate assets and MTS’s property manager for the warehouse were both aware that San Diego Sports Entertainment Center and its subtenants were operating without proper building or occupancy permits.—
Alex Riggins,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Many pitchers give praise to their defensive teammates, but when Mother McAuley’s Maggie Welniak says it, believe it.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Spartans got a cross in front of the net and Jayde Hudson’s shot went off teammate Bella Marquez’s face for the goal in the 68th minute that cut the deficit to 2-1.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Rory is delighted when his older sister weaves a playmate for him out of flowers and words, naming her Daye.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Mar. 2026
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Earlier that same month, the former Playboy playmate tried out a splash of color, adding pink streaks to her platinum hair.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
19 Feb. 2026
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This subsequently sends the starship forward or backward in time, while occasionally (and inexplicably) transforming your shipmates into freaky clay heads.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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Zumba, a Navy reservist who earlier was a shipmate of Urena on the destroyer USS Carney, pleaded guilty in December to the same charge.—
Steve Patterson,
Florida Times-Union,
29 Jan. 2026
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Oxford High School 60 Minutes A 15-year-old student walked the halls armed with a 9- millimeter handgun, killing four schoolmates.—
Sharyn Alfonsi,
CBS News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Sheeran wedded his childhood friend and former schoolmate, Cherry Seaborn, in 2019, and the happy couple have two kids.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Roommate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roommate. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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