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Recent Examples of roommate
However, according to Griffith's roommate Louis Colombo, Flores Narvaez would still come over to their house to hang out with Griffith and watch TV.
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Mason Leath, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
His daughter Sadie Sandler stars as a college freshman who befriends a girl (Chloe East) who ends up being an awful roommate.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
Chandler Levack‘s new film is structured like a Russian nesting doll of roommate stories, as the two girls are confronted by a guidance counselor who decides to tell them another story of freshman year roommates who didn’t get along at first.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2026
Also included in the documents is audio of a 911 call made by Mortensen's roommate, who identifies himself as Cru Eaton.
—Samantha Cookinham, NBC news, 17 Apr. 2026
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Mason Leath, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
His daughter Sadie Sandler stars as a college freshman who befriends a girl (Chloe East) who ends up being an awful roommate.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
Chandler Levack‘s new film is structured like a Russian nesting doll of roommate stories, as the two girls are confronted by a guidance counselor who decides to tell them another story of freshman year roommates who didn’t get along at first.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2026
Also included in the documents is audio of a 911 call made by Mortensen's roommate, who identifies himself as Cru Eaton.
—Samantha Cookinham, NBC news, 17 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roommate
Noun
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Two months later, LaSota resurfaced in Pennsylvania, where state police, investigating the murder of the parents of a Rationalist named Jamie Zajko, found her in a hotel room rented to Zajko’s housemate, Daniel Blank.—
Tessa Stuart,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
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Miller joined the cast of Summer House as a former paramour of Gulbranson, sparking the ire of housemate and future Giggly Squad co-host Hannah Berner.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 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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At the vigil, Pierre’s family joined by dozens of friends, classmates and activists at the teen’s high school, Eagle Academy of Southeast Queens, before setting off down Merrick Blvd.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Schools brought in counselors for the victims’ young classmates and community leaders called for a citywide reckoning on stopping domestic violence.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
21 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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Reiten’s arrival signals a reunion with her former Chelsea teammates, defender Jess Carter and goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger.—
Melanie Anzidei,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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The trio are also teammates in travel with the Wasco Diamonds.—
Rick Armstrong,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 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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He and his old Shelton schoolmate Brian Reilly (who is credited as producer, assistant editor and unit production manager on this film) started their KT Pictures company around eight years ago.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
9 Apr. 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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“Roommate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roommate. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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