: an establishment which provides lodging and parking and in which the rooms are usually accessible from an outdoor parking area
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Inside the motel room, Williams wiped the gun down and forced the mom to hold it and put her hand on the trigger to get her fingerprints on the weapon, the mom told officers.
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Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
Four men have been executed, and Glen Rogers is slated to be put to death Thursday in the 1995 murder of a woman in a Tampa motel room.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025
His widow’s peak is perhaps the most pronounced it’s ever been; he’s got a scar on his chest suggesting surgery after a heart attack; the tighty-whities in which Husk walks around his lonely motel room are wrinkled and faded.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 May 2025
Anaheim has spent millions buying and demolishing several motels along Beach Boulevard over the past few years, including the Americana Motel, the Covered Wagon and the Anaheim Lodge.
—Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2025
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Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
Four men have been executed, and Glen Rogers is slated to be put to death Thursday in the 1995 murder of a woman in a Tampa motel room.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025
His widow’s peak is perhaps the most pronounced it’s ever been; he’s got a scar on his chest suggesting surgery after a heart attack; the tighty-whities in which Husk walks around his lonely motel room are wrinkled and faded.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 May 2025
Anaheim has spent millions buying and demolishing several motels along Beach Boulevard over the past few years, including the Americana Motel, the Covered Wagon and the Anaheim Lodge.
—Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Motel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motel. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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motel
noun
mo·tel
mō-ˈtel 
: a building or group of buildings which provide lodgings and in which the rooms are usually reached directly from an outdoor parking lot
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