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Recent Examples of dorm
Her dorm room became a hub for her creativity.
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Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
Conversations in dorm rooms and lecture halls consist of roughly 97% university-loathing and imitative protests to fire coaches and athletic directors.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
The building, adjacent to Medical Center East's south tower, used to be a dorm for students and housed a barber shop in the front and a deli in the back.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Sep. 2025
But a dorm stay, like a White House second term, typically maxes out at four years.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2025
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Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
Conversations in dorm rooms and lecture halls consist of roughly 97% university-loathing and imitative protests to fire coaches and athletic directors.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
The building, adjacent to Medical Center East's south tower, used to be a dorm for students and housed a barber shop in the front and a deli in the back.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Sep. 2025
But a dorm stay, like a White House second term, typically maxes out at four years.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorm
Noun
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Kurt later found his son in a dormitory in Austria.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
9 Oct. 2025
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The first shooting happened on campus near the Hugine Suites, a student dormitory, triggering a campuswide lockdown, according to a statement from the university’s media relations department.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
5 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The daughter of a widowed boardinghouse keeper, Mary moved with her mother to Manhattan and, as a teenager, began working behind the counter at John Anderson’s Liberty Street Cigar Shop in Lower Manhattan.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The setting is a dusty town square, bordered on one side by the posh Siete Mares Hotel and on the other by the city’s worst quarter, fronted by the Ritz Men Only, a dangerous flophouse.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
25 July 2025
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After Chili's twin sister, Jellybean, was found dead in a Kansas City flophouse, Chili began a downward spiral and was eventually caught drinking on the job by Brett.—
Breanne L. Heldman,
People.com,
18 July 2025
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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorm. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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