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Recent Examples of roommates
Kaylee Goncalves also felt as though she was being watched and stalked in the weeks before she was murdered alongside two of her roommates and one roommate's boyfriend.
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Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roommates
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But neither Scharf nor any of his classmates had ever been exposed to this scenario—because Amherst, like most liberal-arts colleges, has no graduate students.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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The student government at a Catholic school in Queens, New York denied their classmates the opportunity to start a Turning Point USA chapter on campus last November.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Penix said teammates have kept in touch with him since the injury and surgery.—
DJ Siddiqi,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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But lead plaintiff Madison Fisk and her fellow former teammates—represented by lawyers Arthur Bryant, Lori Bullock, Gayle Blatt and Jenna Rangel—pushed for financial compensation as well, arguing they were collectively denied years of athletic financial aid given to their male counterparts.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Some colleagues left their jobs, but others navigated the situation and rose into more powerful positions.—
Chris Lipp,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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South Florida viewers and TV colleagues were mourning this week after learning that a familiar weather personality had died in a plane crash.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2026
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The next frontier of work is here, where AI agents are the new coworkers and algorithms operate as office assistants.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
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The darkly comic horror-thriller stars McAdams and Dylan O’Brien as coworkers stranded on a desert island, and sports a glowing 93 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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Toward that goal, retailers can arm store associates with technology that supports sales.—
Sarah Jones,
Footwear News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Wedding and 14 other alleged associates were specifically accused of orchestrating the January 2025 murder of a witness who was shot and killed at a restaurant in Colombia.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The company expects the store to expand rapidly as more apps and partners join, providing a growing library of skills for commercial and personal robots.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Jan. 2026
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These test projects would also include environmental monitoring In addition, the council would form a public–private Rare Earth Elements Consortium composed of state government, university and industry partners.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Roommates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roommates. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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