lodger
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Recognizing her as a fellow lodger, Sellers sent his valet to knock on her door.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
With conditions somewhat cramped at his sister's home, Richard moved into the house of Ma Smith, where Philip was a lodger.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025
By 1891, John had moved to Edinburgh and was living as a lodger with a widowed pianoforte maker, Richard Honeyman, 70, and his daughter, Helen, 45.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024
“If it was a house, I’d be a lodger or a tenant or whatever you call it in America,” he laughs.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024
"On the contrary," stated the lodger in the middle, "might the young woman not come into us and play in the room here where it is really much more comfortable and cheerful?"
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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