dinner table

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Reciting it at the dinner table, Idle snapped his fingers in time with the punchline.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

Meredith’s childhood friend called from their dinner table.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

I was a child of physicians, growing up discussing medical cases around the dinner table, so this was all new to me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

Those films left viewers talking long after they departed the theater, ready to relive memories and quotes over the dinner table, at school and at parties.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026

Dr. Montague asked, sitting at the head of the dinner table with his wife cozily beside him.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson