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[room, room] / rum, rʊm /




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Such theft accounted for billions of dollars, Aurangzeb said, adding that there remained "room for improvement" on increasing income tax collection as well.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Without a studio machine making decisions based primarily on commercial expectations, filmmakers have more room to tell a story on their own terms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"After the operation, the Pope awoke normally and returned after a brief period of observation to his room," it said earlier, before he spent a "peaceful night" at the hospital.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

EchoStar shares have room to surge as much as 67%, argues a newly bullish J.P.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

In the meantime, I go to my room to practice how I am going to tell Grandma my decision.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Just over a year on he is packing boxes and looking around the empty rooms after he quit his tenancy with the pub's owner, Stonegate Group.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

He complained that some rocket shelters had been turned into prayer rooms, reducing their availability during emergencies.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Booking and Expedia largely sell hotel rooms that travelers can also book directly or through competing sites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

But in operating rooms in Yemen's port city of Aden, geopolitics feels remote.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Before long a steady stream of guests was winding up the narrow staircase to Tante Jans’s rooms where he sat almost lost in a thicket of flowers.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

All seven members roomed in a single dorm room until 2016.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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

Once in Sacramento, Cárdenas roomed with Assemblymembers Cruz Bustamante and Richard Polanco, the Eastside politico who was then chair of the Latino Legislative Caucus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

The whole time he roomed next to me, I never even once saw him brush his teeth.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

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

“This is a great opportunity to spend 2 1/2 weeks with a guy you don’t really know, right?” said Pedersen, who is rooming with defensive back Croix Stewart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

It was an Osage trading store, and nearby was a grubby rooming house and a blacksmith shop with an immense pile of horseshoes.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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