roommate
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Live with a parent, rent a small apartment with a roommate or two, or even better, buy a duplex and rent out the other side to help pay the mortgage.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Then his neighbor, a deacon in his church, told him about a previous roommate who had died of cancer, and how he had recently been diagnosed himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Karnofsky was once Amodei's roommate, and is now married to his sister Daniela, who co-founded Anthropic with him.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
She appeared to be "in shock" and "not really understanding the gravity of what she was saying", a roommate said, according to the documents the New York Times obtained.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
A college student and his roommate were driving south from New York State to their home in New Jersey.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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A company later acquired the home but also didn’t make repairs, pushing Raj and her roommates out.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
A few times she moved to live with roommates to bring down the cost of renting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Freeman, on the other hand, started the season in triple A. But that didn’t split up the roommates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen reminisced about working two jobs, living with roommates and eating ramen after college.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
The roommates kept a stewpot simmering perpetually on the stove, tossing in a scrounged vegetable when they had it or a scrap of meat when flush, and squabbling over spare potatoes.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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