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as in housemate
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Recent Examples of roommate
Zhuang, a Chinese national who was also known as Emily King, was found unresponsive by her roommate, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Modica also emphasized that Zhuang's roommate is cooperating with the investigation and is not considered a person of interest.
—Laura Barcella, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Her roommate called 911 and knocked on neighbors’ doors.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
Fearful that the neurotic Florence might attempt suicide, Olive invites her to move in as her roommate.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Modica also emphasized that Zhuang's roommate is cooperating with the investigation and is not considered a person of interest.
—Laura Barcella, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Her roommate called 911 and knocked on neighbors’ doors.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
Fearful that the neurotic Florence might attempt suicide, Olive invites her to move in as her roommate.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roommate
Noun
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The next day, Gronkowski and his two housemates arrived home from the Super Bowl in Minneapolis and noticed the basement door was broken.—
Alex Andrejev,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article A Long Island man who fatally stabbed his 63-year-old housemate has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, prosecutors announced Tuesday.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Nor is there any depth whatsoever to a host of support characters played by attractive actors who don’t get to do a lot of acting here, perhaps excepting an alternately lively and too-strenuous Ayden Cross as Shaw’s flatmate Ella.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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The show, which launched in 2022 after a run at the famous Scottish arts festival, stars Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing as unlikely flatmates, who are thrown together in their first year at Brent University.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
14 Jan. 2025
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One of my other hilarious classmates, Christian Hurtado, even gave me an edit that made it into my final set.—
Madeleine Janz,
People.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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Whorton’s classmate, Jane Conrad, aided Lexington to another first place finish in the two mile (11:18.17).—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
13 Feb. 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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The family lives in a rented brownstone in Brooklyn, in which rooms are let to subtenants.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman similarly worried some teammates might flippantly request a challenge that would be better spent on a more important, game-critical pitch.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
21 Feb. 2025
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Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates disembarked from their team plane in Kansas City on Wednesday bundled up in ski hats and parkas.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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Maybe, but Crow is quite literally there: a menacing big bird who has come into the room to interface with Cumberbatch, to be his supernatural playmate and philosopher and tough-love therapist.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025
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The United States is playing this game with the ruthlessness of a child grabbing all the blocks from their playmate, determined to leave them empty-handed.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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In total, 58 of Upton’s shipmates died when the USS Utah quickly sank, and 461 sailors survived.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
28 Dec. 2024
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Svoboda was told the engineers were crucial in keeping the ship from capsizing by counter-flooding the engine room, essentially sacrificing themselves to save as many shipmates and ships around them as possible.—
Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Dec. 2024
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The principal — who demurred when asked about his schoolmate’s high school years — said the gardener always paid attention to the little things.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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But Driscoll was a schoolmate of Vice President JD Vance.—
Danielle Battaglia,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Roommate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roommate. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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