Meaning & use
shared
Possessed, used, or experienced jointly by two or more people.
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The roommates split the rent for their shared apartment near campus.
Their shared love of hiking brought the two strangers together quickly.
A note on using this word
Shared is the past participle of 'share' but functions as an ordinary adjective before a noun, as in 'shared interests.'
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