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Recent Examples of dormitory
An administrative leader at the Odesa National Music Academy, a higher education music academy in the city, said that one of the halls in a dormitory was badly damaged.
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Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026
On the drive back to her dormitory, Daisy sees that the florist’s shop has been ransacked.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
More recently, the building has been leased as a dormitory for Westmont College, a Christian liberal arts college based in Santa Barbara County.
—Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2026
Though Oh was asked to provide five-star accommodations for E’LAST, there were no luxury hotels in the area, so the group members stayed in the dormitory.
—Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
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Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026
On the drive back to her dormitory, Daisy sees that the florist’s shop has been ransacked.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
More recently, the building has been leased as a dormitory for Westmont College, a Christian liberal arts college based in Santa Barbara County.
—Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2026
Though Oh was asked to provide five-star accommodations for E’LAST, there were no luxury hotels in the area, so the group members stayed in the dormitory.
—Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dormitory
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Opponents say bill makes women less safe Instances of trans people perpetrating violence in public bathrooms, locker rooms and dorm rooms are exceedingly rare.—
Jack Harvel
April 20,
Kansas City Star,
21 Apr. 2026
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These two beacons of truth and connoisseurs of mess have been bonded for over a decade, sharing the traumas of a crappy Boston dorm room and a pitiful Brooklyn dating scene.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 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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“Dormitory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dormitory. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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