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
"It's not affordable anymore. I have to have a lodger live in my house just to help me pay and keep my head above water," Kathy added.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2025
“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
He said the lodger had been told by the show's producers that he might have failed the lie detector test because he had had a "heavy cold".
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024
"Mr. Samsa," called out the middle lodger to the father, and pointed his index finger, without uttering a further word, at Gregor as he was moving slowly forward.
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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