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Recent Examples of waiting room
The remodel, which starts Feb. 17, will make city offices more secure by enlarging the assistant clerk’s office and creating a new waiting room area for visitors with window access to the clerk’s office, officials said.
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Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2025
Image The railway is a tourism attraction itself: Its behemoth stations feature peaked red roofs and cavernous waiting rooms full of hundreds of people lining up to board trains.
—Christine Chung, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Grey luxury vinyl plank floors serve a purpose in utilitarian waiting rooms, heavily trafficked apartment halls, and offices.
—Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Expand All Yuba City Everyone was crying when Johnny Matthews rushed into the hospital waiting room.
—Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
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Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2025
Image The railway is a tourism attraction itself: Its behemoth stations feature peaked red roofs and cavernous waiting rooms full of hundreds of people lining up to board trains.
—Christine Chung, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Grey luxury vinyl plank floors serve a purpose in utilitarian waiting rooms, heavily trafficked apartment halls, and offices.
—Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Expand All Yuba City Everyone was crying when Johnny Matthews rushed into the hospital waiting room.
—Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waiting room
Noun
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Liles-Brown said Channel 24 will have a VIP lounge room similar to Good Luck Lounge, Ace of Spades’ adjoining cocktail lounge.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Feb. 2025
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The deal will start with Qatar’s sponsorship of the second annual Fanatics Fest, a three-day event in New York City in June, where the GCO will host a networking lounge.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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After several years of requiring visitors to obtain highly coveted advance reservations during peak seasons, this popular California park, which routinely hosts more than half a million people per month during the summer, is indefinitely suspending its timed entry system.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
4 Mar. 2025
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Traffic is at a standstill on the way to an entry point, and Trent stops by a couple’s car and asks for their IDs.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Ideas are shared in hallway conversations, buried in meeting notes, or remain locked in the minds of a few senior leaders.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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The couple walked out to the hallway together during a break, each holding one of their sons.—
Jack Irvin,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The train car was crammed with people sitting on the lower and upper berths, squatting in the aisles, and crowding the vestibule leading to the toilets, and this might have been the reason that Ganesh Rajwar was sitting in the open doorway, his feet on the metal stairs.—
Amitava Kumar,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
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In the vestibule, Katie Rudner folded programs for arriving guests and handed out envelopes for checks and helped with Venmo charges.—
Thomas Curwen,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Waiting room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waiting%20room. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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