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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
Noun
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Tony Olson, played by Anthony Rapp, spends most of the film commentating on how absurd the behavior of his classmates is — but that doesn't stop him and his pals from joining in at the party at the moon tower.—
Kate Hogan,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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This summer, Meredith began turning up on the Facebook pages of liberal former friends and classmates.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Panthers teammates went up and appeared to exchange a few words with him once he was loaded into the cart, and then while driving off the field, Moore offered the crowd a thumbs up.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Sep. 2025
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The boos directed at the Penn State offense started early, and at some point just about every Nittany Lions possession ended with their fans voicing displeasure as Drew Allar and his teammates trotted off the field.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Manes admired Bukele’s reformist zeal, former colleagues said.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Li and his colleagues said these results can then be shared across command levels, giving the PLA improved situational awareness.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Older coworkers often misread those priorities as lower effort.—
Jennifer Moss,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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Chris missed his work and coworkers.—
Juli Fraga,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Burlington is hiring seasonal cashiers, sales and stocking associates at several San Diego stores.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Sep. 2025
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Each character, from family members to firm associates, complicates Jax’s pursuit of justice while reflecting the contradictions of reality.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As a result, the hurricane center and its partners have been scheduling frequent flights over the western Atlantic in the hurricane hunter aircraft to collect information about the storms and their surrounding environment, Brown said.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Neither of her previous partners really cherished Callie or brought out her joyous side until Arizona.—
James Factora,
Them.,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Roommates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roommates. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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