How to Use watercooler in a Sentence

watercooler

noun

• In the first of two new episodes Rob Lowe counts down the greatest watercooler moments of the ‘80s.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
• To get an idea of how many people are back in the office, just check the watercoolers.
  — Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Here’s where the idea stops being the stuff of sci-fi watercooler talk and starts to sound real.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
• The Olympics used to be the ultimate watercooler event.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• It’s also one of the reasons why Jones has been linked to San Francisco around the league’s watercooler.
  — Vincent Frank, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• In the past, news of a dispute or CEO’s misdemeanor would likely be gossip around the watercooler.
  — Anna Shields, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• For more than a decade at its early and mid-2000s peak, American Idol was the nation's watercooler.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Mar. 2018
• But the O’Neill that Yankees fans came to love was never one to give away an at-bat, which is why no exposed dugout watercooler was safe during an 0-for-4 game.
  — Pete Caldera, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
• But the Sports Stadium is more like a news-source-meets-watercooler meant for chatting, not streaming.
  — Julia Greenberg, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2016
• The film's twist is one of those watercooler moments that rivals any horror movie ending.
  — Steven Thrash, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2022
• Nor, they were relieved to discover, did there seem to be any inside jokes or watercooler gossip to catch up on.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2022
• In the Covid/WFH era, watercooler chats are less of a thing and cultural criticism often gets mired in overblown culture wars.
  — WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
• Teams should be able to share work updates or gather around the virtual watercooler.
  — Steven Kramer, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• And that show was a global phenomenon, back at a time when there weren’t as many channels, there weren’t as many options, and there were still watercooler shows.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 22 June 2022
• Having coffee with people and chatting in the kitchen by the watercooler are productive uses of time.
  — Shelley Zalis, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• The informal nature of a chat app, where dozens of coworkers might treat it like a watercooler, could compound this problem.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2020
• Employees aren’t chained to their desks and are free to engage in watercooler talk, but there is also a sufficient amount of meaningful work to be done.
  — Christopher Tompkins, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• What are the McLean-like watercooler stories within audit firms?
  — Karthik Ramanna, Fortune, 11 July 2020
• This was once the purview of watercooler chats, but the Covid-19 pandemic took away those natural opportunities to share and learn.
  — Ofir Paldi, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• Ever get the sense of being left out of watercooler conversations, inside jokes and the fast track for promotions?
  — Hui Liao, baltimoresun.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Especially in an officeless office, Slack is the cubicle, the boardroom, the hallway, the watercooler, and the bar.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2021
• Though many have weighed in on the watercooler moment that derailed the 94th Academy Awards, Rock has kept relatively quiet about the ordeal.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
• With watercooler talks, social media, and the internet, getting off track throughout the workday is easy.
  — Mike Kappel, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Art Hogan, a 35-year veteran of Wall Street, fears the industry has lost 18 valuable months of the kind of informal training and camaraderie that happens around the watercooler.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 June 2021
• As news of their divorce hit, watercooler speculation in the nonprofit world reached fever pitch.
  — Danielle Stein Chizzik, Town & Country, 5 May 2021
• Donut’s tagline: Connect around the watercooler, anywhere.
  — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• Buzz and watercooler conversations seem to build over time.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 8 June 2022
• Because of that, Art’s honest-to-god freakout felt like a genuine, unplanned watercooler moment.
  — Shaad D'souza, Vulture, 15 May 2021
• The watercooler show had been replaced by rabbit-hole television.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2018
• Seemingly every company has at least a few people who quietly go (or sign on) to work every day, skip the watercooler chatter, and get right down to business.
  — Ryan Wong, Quartz at Work, 29 June 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024