water cooler
Example Sentences
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These aren’t even movies that you’d bring to the water cooler, lest you want a conversation with a coworker to fall flat after 10 seconds.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
"They want to make water cooler shows that bring audiences together."
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
The 24-year-old’s colleagues are scattered across living rooms around the country, dealing in Slack messages and emails, but never chatting by the water cooler because, well, there isn’t one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Standing awkwardly on the outside of someone else’s water cooler.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2026
Fred scooched closer to the water cooler and accidentally nudged it sideways—enough to make the big water bottle up top wobble.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
