lunchroom

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Recent Examples of lunchroom The district decided staff reduction was its path forward, trimming positions at the central office, lunchroom monitors, assistant High school principals, campus clerical positions, and teachers. Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025 There’s a pleasant buzz in the lunchroom, chatter in the hallways, and an alphabet of new analog hobbies popping up just about everywhere. The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025 Hundreds of elementary school students did their best to sit still and stay pin-drop silent as first-grade teacher Stephanie Lane made her way into the lunchroom Thursday. Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 11 Dec. 2025 A lot of that takes place not (only) in a meeting but at the lunchroom table or at a Padres game or at the pickleball court or at the game room. Hang Nguyen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lunchroom
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunchroom
Noun
  • The Met café is a glorified cafeteria—and an overpriced one at that.
    Katie James Watkinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Upstairs, the small cafeteria provides a proper dose of ski nostalgia.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Nevertheless, everyone can celebrate (or drown their sorrows) with some of the free and discounted offerings at these restaurants.
    Mike Snider, AZCentral.com, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Her mother, who washed dishes at a restaurant on weekends and cleaned hotel rooms six days a week, stopped going to work.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The lemon pizza and bone marrow tater tots wow diners, yet the regularly rotating menu centered around local harvests keeps guests guessing about what’s coming to their tables next.
    USA TODAY NETWORK, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • For decades, the restaurant functioned as a gathering place for musicians, neighborhood regulars and generations of diners who watched the surrounding corridor transform.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • His parents ran a luncheonette and rooming house near factories whose immigrant workers came in to eat.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • This simple and straightforward luncheonette never tries to overcomplicate the diner experience, and that attitude carries through to the menu.
    Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Six months into the protests, Woolworth integrated the lunch counter.
    Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • His view was that the factory worker filling out a basketball parlay card at a local lunch counter was in some sense complicit.
    Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026

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“Lunchroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunchroom. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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