roomful
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roomfuls
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He explained before the cameras and a roomful of reporters the rationale for the interest-rate increase and the central bank’s plan from here on out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Everyone make some noise,” the jubilant Johnson told the roomful of reporters afterward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
I was gathering a roomful of writers, after all.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025
"It's not our night," Australia's opposition leader Peter Dutton told a roomful of supporters in Brisbane after his rival, Anthony Albanese, was re-elected as prime minister.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
The judge, after the fury of losing the chicken subsided, comforted himself with his roomful of golden eggs.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
It was presented as tough medicine to the city, as well as to roomfuls of shouting parents so angry that at times they were restrained by security.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
In turn, Moore clearly has developed that thing often present in, say, military children: the capacity to go comfortably into roomfuls of strangers.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
Hospital systems and insurers — which have become huge, Hydra-like enterprises — now all employ roomfuls of coding-program graduates to perform these tasks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2017
He told aides to thrash out big ideas for the book, and he envisioned gathering roomfuls of experts.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2011
And yet, the house did seem to have filled itself, to have drawn out of the family roomfuls of activity.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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