"watercooler" meaning in English

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      "form": "more watercooler",
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          "ref": "1994 February 21, Bob Curtright, “‘Secrets’ one of guilty pleasures”, in The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kan.: The Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Co., page 9A, column 1",
          "text": "It’s all junk food for the mind, but it sure enlivens the next day’s watercooler discussions.",
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          "ref": "2021 August 3, Sensitive in South Dakota [pseudonym], “Dear Abby”, in Times Record News, volume 115, number 82, page 4B",
          "text": "In my opinion, this is no more annoying than many office interruptions — watercooler gossip, phones ringing in the next cubicle, someone next door with an active cold, etc.",
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          "ref": "2023 February 11, Tshepo Mokoena, “‘Sometimes it is racism’: Jada Pinkett Smith on prejudice, typecasting and the fallout from that slap”, in Saturday (The Guardian), number 72, page 3, column 2",
          "text": "While commentators frothed at the mouth, the slap made Pinkett Smith’s alopecia diagnosis and hair loss a watercooler topic (she had first mentioned them on Red Table Talk in 2018 and later on Instagram).",
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