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water cooler

noun as in drinking fountain

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noun as in water fountain

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Having these regular meetups in your calendar is a way to “simulate the water cooler moments where you just kind of bump into each other and you just have a conversation that’s not related to work,” Franco says.

From Time

It fostered conversations around office water coolers, over garden fences, and in supermarket aisles, as the Bunker household became a televised petri dish in which to observe and learn about the issues upending American society.

From Time

The in-person networking, deal inking and water cooler talk will be hard to recreate but not impossible, he said.

From Digiday

The typical water cooler moments that most have missed have been even more keenly felt by Laven.

From Digiday

So the discussions that used to happen over a water cooler don’t even happen over a water cooler anymore.

If 2014 was any indication, the coming TV schedule is sure to be filled with plenty of water-cooler shows.

A bottle of locally brewed liquor chills in a water cooler in the corner, a Pepsi bottle next to it for mixing.

“My ideal is that this conversation happens at the water cooler,” Tambor says.

All likely had some uncomfortable small talk to make at the water cooler when they got back.

If all of it was true, Stratford Oakmont must have had some of the most awkward water-cooler talks in corporate history.

He got up, lurching to the motion of the flying train, and started forward to the water cooler behind the car door.

He went to the water cooler, filled the glass with cold water and presented it to the young lady.

After a copious raid on the water-cooler, Theodora returned, feeling a little bloated, but much more composed and natural.

At his side lay the torso of the young reporter, his head mashed by the heavy water-cooler.

In getting a small boat see that it is a "water cooler," as an air-cooler will run a few minutes and stop, as the piston swells.

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