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Recent Examples of dorm
The good news is that today’s multifunctional furniture is far from the utilitarian, dorm-room feel of decades past.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
The trend is more of a downward slope than an abrupt falloff, but the gradient is steep and represents a crisis to colleges dependent on filling classroom seats and dorm beds.
—Jeffrey Selingo, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2026
And Singapore’s new worker dorm tests the government’s public-health pledge.
—Samantha Stewart, Bloomberg, 8 Apr. 2026
Philo crashed in Paul’s dorm room, too, sometimes.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
The trend is more of a downward slope than an abrupt falloff, but the gradient is steep and represents a crisis to colleges dependent on filling classroom seats and dorm beds.
—Jeffrey Selingo, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2026
And Singapore’s new worker dorm tests the government’s public-health pledge.
—Samantha Stewart, Bloomberg, 8 Apr. 2026
Philo crashed in Paul’s dorm room, too, sometimes.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorm
Noun
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Neighbors in Berkeley delayed construction of a new UC dormitory for three years, claiming the students would create noise pollution.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Nataliia found a job in a dormitory, issuing bed linens to residents.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The spiritual unease that Harold Loomis brings to Seth and Bertha’s boardinghouse reaches a point of crisis at the end of the first act, with another, still more terrible outburst inevitably on the way.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Apr. 2026
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At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Henson is making her Broadway debut as Bertha Holly, a woman running a cozy Pittsburgh boardinghouse with her husband, Seth (Cedric the Entertainer), in 1911, during the Great Migration.—
Juliana Ukiomogbe,
Vogue,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Our flophouse in Harlem was growing crowded.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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His novels keep alive the Albany of the 1930s: the domain of swells, sports, and bums, of women with appetites, of flophouses and bowling alleys in the dark hours.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Mar. 2026
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