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Recent Examples of dormitory
Additionally, strategic investments in player dormitories and practice facilities have fostered a competitive environment that attracts top talent and enhances on-court performance.
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Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
More than half of the teams in the current 16-team configuration have built new arenas or undertaken transformative renovations since Sankey was hired, and others have invested in player dormitories and practice facilities.
—Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
He was lodged in a 10th-floor dormitory Saturday night, with two color TV sets, a pool table, telephones and other elderly inmates.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
So was United Tribes Technical College in North Dakota, which paused renovation of a dormitory originally built as military barracks in 1900.
—Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
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Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
More than half of the teams in the current 16-team configuration have built new arenas or undertaken transformative renovations since Sankey was hired, and others have invested in player dormitories and practice facilities.
—Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
He was lodged in a 10th-floor dormitory Saturday night, with two color TV sets, a pool table, telephones and other elderly inmates.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
So was United Tribes Technical College in North Dakota, which paused renovation of a dormitory originally built as military barracks in 1900.
—Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dormitory
Noun
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According to the outlet, the agony caused Cornett to remove her name outside her dorm room, temporarily relocate to emergency housing, switch to online classes and continue to spend most of her time in her room.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The two dorms that make up Mahoney-Pearson were built in the late 1950s and early 1960s and each house about 700 students, according to UM.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Her cousin becomes suspicious when Levi returns to the boardinghouse alone.—
Oline H. Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
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True enough, perhaps, but Isabel was not pleased on finding herself in the company of boardinghouse people.—
Charles Portis,
Harper's Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Voodoo is the least of what’s been going on in the flophouses.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
2 Apr. 2025
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When Abercrombie does offer up interiors, they’re sparsely furnished and dingy, like rooms in a flophouse.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Dormitory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dormitory. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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