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waiting rooms

  • plural
    of waiting room.
    waiting room
    noun
    a room for the use of persons waiting, as in a railroad station or a physician's office.

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This is why friendship is often a product of something else: work, school, church, children, sports, errands, waiting rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

When the decision finally hit, waiting rooms full of patients were suddenly told that their appointments were canceled.

From Slate May 5, 2026

A review of research by the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin concluded that doctors’ waiting rooms are indeed often overcrowded.

From MarketWatch May 1, 2026

The watchdog said patients being brought into A&E were being treated in waiting rooms, corridors and in ambulances outside hospital because of a lack of beds.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2026

I’m suspended, as in airports or dentists’ waiting rooms, expecting yet another interlude that will be textureless and without desire, like a painkiller or the interiors of planes.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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