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[room, room] / rum, rʊm /




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He called the role "an opportunity of a lifetime", but said playing a figure worshipped by millions left little room for the creative freedom he had enjoyed in other films.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Chaar sees room for compromise on issues like government funding, increasing the debt ceiling and AI regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Stafford downplayed having left the locker room on Sunday with an ice pack on his right elbow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“This creates greater policy uncertainty for pharma in the months ahead, giving European governments more room to slow-play” those negotiations, according to Diederik Stadig, ING’s senior healthcare economist.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The moment he says that, a guy who looks to be in his early twenties enters the rental room, wearing the same hideous uniform.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

By the 1990s and beyond, they were raising substantial sums for equipment, buildings, research, and the likes of play areas in children's wards and well-equipped staff rooms.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

There’s no shortage of fun to be had with multiple game rooms, a racquetball court, a casino room, a billiard room, and even a lavish nightclub.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The luminous LED lighting in public rooms and corridors hints at a UFO arrival and pays homage to artists James Turrell and Dan Flavin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Nor/Ma’s industrial-greenhouse feel, and Scandinavian sweets on offer, might seem less authentic than the stuccoed rooms and layer cakes over at Gerbeaud, or the outright grandiosity of the New York Café.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Simulation rooms were soundproofed to an almost maddening degree, and now that I was alone, I could hear my own heartbeat like someone was holding a microphone to my chest.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

I recently returned from my 50th college reunion, where my wife and I roomed with my college suitemate, Cardinal Robert McElroy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

"I roomed with 'Thommo' for years, and I've seen him and spent time with him since, and he's genuinely struggling," says Moody.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

His wife and Maria are close and Donald has roomed with Villegas on the road.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

While working on the reboot, I roomed with the associate producer, Marcy Carriker, who married Tom in 1990.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Another time he told me, in an offhand manner, that when he was at Brown he had roomed with the boy who lived down the hall from him.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Four months later, co-chairing the February 2020 National Prayer Breakfast, Suozzi and Moolenaar referred to rooming together.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

Moreover, it’s not just young people fresh out of school who are rooming with others to keep their housing costs low.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2025

She lived in the same run-down area of seedy rooming houses as Raffo, whom she had befriended on the streets.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

“Bunker Hill is old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town,” the noir master Raymond Chandler wrote, long before the neighborhood’s old rooming houses were demolished.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2023

When McBride checked in to a rooming house in the capital, he found a telegram from an associate waiting for him.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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