waiting room
noun
: a room (as in a doctor's office) for the use of persons (such as patients) who are waiting
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Read a book in the waiting room or listen to a podcast in your car if those fluorescent office lights get your heart racing.
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Katie Camero, SELF, 8 July 2024
Stories about people dying in hospital waiting rooms populate the BBC.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
As the hours went by and the waiting room emptied out, Palacios started feeling a sinking fear over the possibility that her husband would be detained.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 25 June 2024
And the poor elders who traditionally start the event with a ceremonial tee shot — Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson — were kept hanging around for hours like patients in the gerontologist’s waiting room.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2024
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Katie Camero, SELF, 8 July 2024
Stories about people dying in hospital waiting rooms populate the BBC.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
As the hours went by and the waiting room emptied out, Palacios started feeling a sinking fear over the possibility that her husband would be detained.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 25 June 2024
And the poor elders who traditionally start the event with a ceremonial tee shot — Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson — were kept hanging around for hours like patients in the gerontologist’s waiting room.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2024
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“Waiting room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waiting%20room. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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