common room
noun
1
: a lounge available to all members of a residential community
2
: a room in a college for faculty use
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As more than 50 hopeful contestants plus friends and family gathered in the Franklin Morning Pointe Senior Center common room on a still hot, almost fall day, the excitement was almost palpable.
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Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 8 Oct. 2024
Heating vents in the hallways and common rooms appeared nonfunctional.
—Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
These rotating feasts are also considered an early Thanksgiving – a holiday most Canadians today experience more as a harvest festival in early fall, but that some historians also trace to the meals in Port-Royal’s common room.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
Another video shows the teen, who testified in the jail uniform, and the staffer seated close together in a common room at some point, with their knees almost touching.
—Christine MacDonald, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2024
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Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 8 Oct. 2024
Heating vents in the hallways and common rooms appeared nonfunctional.
—Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
These rotating feasts are also considered an early Thanksgiving – a holiday most Canadians today experience more as a harvest festival in early fall, but that some historians also trace to the meals in Port-Royal’s common room.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
Another video shows the teen, who testified in the jail uniform, and the staffer seated close together in a common room at some point, with their knees almost touching.
—Christine MacDonald, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Common room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20room. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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