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bedfellow

noun as in roommate

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Monopolistic power is a worry that sometimes makes strange bedfellows, especially in Congress.

From Time

An odd group of congressional bedfellows will introduce a bill Thursday to fully standardize and digitize the process of registering foreign agents — making it far easier for the public to search and enforce the federal database.

From Axios

In doing so, it has found itself partnered with some unlikely bedfellows, profoundly undermining both Ennahda’s credibility and that of its political partners.

From Time

The $200 billion data broker industry is lucrative, and has many unlikely bedfellows.

From Time

The tax measures are major wins for anti-smoking advocates after a string of defeats but, in an example of how politics makes strange bedfellows, Colorado’s tax might not have been possible without Altria’s help.

From Fortune

Wallace crept into bed beside his communicative bedfellow in silence.

He first made an attempt on the apprentice, his bedfellow; but he struggled so far as to effect his escape, and hid himself.

He implores mercy for his “desolate bedfellow,” for her children, and for his sons by his first wife.

My bedfellow and I slept on an oilcloth, covered with an overcoat, and tied our four feet up together in a flannel shirt.

Why do they hardly feel that they have prayed if company, or a bedfellow, on a journey, keeps them from using oral prayer?

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bedfellow, such as: caller, client, companion, customer, inmate, and patron.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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