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bedfellow

[bed-fel-oh] / ˈbɛdˌfɛl oʊ /


NOUN
roommate
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A person can get lost in a big house, all alone, with nothing but their memories as a cold bedfellow.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2025

Peek inside Puerto Vallarta and you’ll discover a curious little pop-up shop inside the restaurant advertising “Himalayan Tea,” dosas, and pink salt, a theoretically strange bedfellow for a Mexican family restaurant.

From Seattle Times Oct. 17, 2022

Is Musk a strange bedfellow they can live with to save people?

From Washington Post May 3, 2022

As a writer of fiction I set great store by the assistance sleep, and its imaginative bedfellow, dream, provide to creativity.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2015

There was a slight mist when John Longridge rose early the following morning, having fought a losing battle for the middle of the bed with his uninvited bedfellow.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford




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