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Recent Examples of roommate
When Paton called Waddle’s former college roommate, Pat Surtain II, to tell him the deal was done, Surtain already knew.
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Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
Chesney and his roommate Kenny are named for country-music star Kenny Chesney.
—John O'Connor, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
The Giants’ official bench coach is Jayce Tingler, Vitello’s Missouri roommate and a former San Diego Padres manager.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Officers said Gonzalez Benitez's roommate, who was taking care of her 4-year-old daughter while she was gone, tried to contact her but never heard back.
—Michele Gile, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
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Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
Chesney and his roommate Kenny are named for country-music star Kenny Chesney.
—John O'Connor, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
The Giants’ official bench coach is Jayce Tingler, Vitello’s Missouri roommate and a former San Diego Padres manager.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Officers said Gonzalez Benitez's roommate, who was taking care of her 4-year-old daughter while she was gone, tried to contact her but never heard back.
—Michele Gile, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roommate
Noun
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Further complicating matters, Batula in January announced her separation from husband Kyle Cooke, another housemate on Bravo’s reality series.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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Bailey suggests examining the journals of Blanche Glover, LaMotte’s housemate who is thought to have also been her lover.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Mar. 2026
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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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Malikah Auguste, a ninth-grader at Cristo Rey and an intern with Miami Lighthouse, saw the impact the visit had on her classmates.—
Christina Mayo,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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Friends and classmates cheered as Baltimore County native Reid Wiseman launched into space for a moon mission aboard Artemis II on Wednesday.—
Bryant Reed,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 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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Numbers aside, the sleeveless look had his teammates buzzing.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2026
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And to have a guy like him who understands what the competition looks like on the floor, but is still here to kind of enhance the environment, help celebrate his teammates, give his teammates wisdom.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Apr. 2026
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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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Kaveri Mehta is there to marry her childhood schoolmate turned sweetheart Abhinav Singh.—
Ayushi Shah,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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All the scornful gazes of my schoolmates when Doc started to pick me up from campus had been worth it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Roommate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roommate. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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