waiting room
Example Sentences
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"Lymph nodes aren't just passive waiting rooms for immune cells, they actively train and educate T cells, and send them off to do their job," said Professor Kallies.
From Science Daily
Charlotte sat in the hospital A&E waiting room for 22 hours and nearly left several times.
From BBC
In fact, one puzzle actually utilizes the waiting room, as “Election Day” toys with the idea of traversing the human world and a puppet universe.
From Los Angeles Times
And over the course of the contest, enough players kept filing into the sideline blue medical tent that the team doctors could have used a waiting room.
You don’t have to go far for a scan: MRI, EKG, CT, and ultrasound machines are tucked away off a light-filled waiting room.
From Barron's
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