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Recent Examples of roommate
Oren O’Neal, his former Arkansas State roommate who later played with the Oakland Raiders, talked publicly about the struggles of transitioning from sports to life.
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Eric Prisbell, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
Before Chai died, Anderson had already discussed cloning with a roommate.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
The woman then went into her apartment and called police from her roommate’s phone.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, Lucy, the only Black female graduate student in her department at MIT, has uncharacteristically accepted an invitation to join her roommate on the cruise during the height of recruitment season.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
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Eric Prisbell, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
Before Chai died, Anderson had already discussed cloning with a roommate.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
The woman then went into her apartment and called police from her roommate’s phone.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, Lucy, the only Black female graduate student in her department at MIT, has uncharacteristically accepted an invitation to join her roommate on the cruise during the height of recruitment season.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roommate
Noun
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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
Noun
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Another classmate’s parents leaned hard into apples.—
Francesca Krempa,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
11 Mar. 2026
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Rajesh, a school classmate, had come to the US for his MD-PhD, Sachin said.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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Argentine teammates Messi and Tadeo Allende each had a brace in that game.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2026
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Jac Caglianone grabbed a cup of coffee from teammate Vinnie Pasquantino.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
11 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
Noun
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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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The exception is a video that lawmakers say shows a second strike on a boat on Sept. 2, which killed two survivors after their shipmates were killed.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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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Two boys discover another schoolmate detained Over the next several weeks, as Elizabeth languished in detention, at least six other children from her school district made the same cross-country journey from Minnesota to the Dilley detention center, Stuenkel said.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Roommate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roommate. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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