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Recent Examples of flophouse
Back in the day, the LaSalle Hotel was a flophouse, just about the only place for downtown residents.
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
In one stunning moment, Marty, trying to take a shower in a flophouse, ends up falling through the ceiling and onto a shady man (Abel Ferrara) trying to give his dog a bath in the unit below.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
In a recurring theme, an unmarried female Haitian in the flophouse is pregnant.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
What was built was a 29-story baby-poop brown block of a building that looked like a cheap heating unit jutting out of a wall in a flophouse apartment.
—Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2016
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
In one stunning moment, Marty, trying to take a shower in a flophouse, ends up falling through the ceiling and onto a shady man (Abel Ferrara) trying to give his dog a bath in the unit below.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
In a recurring theme, an unmarried female Haitian in the flophouse is pregnant.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
What was built was a 29-story baby-poop brown block of a building that looked like a cheap heating unit jutting out of a wall in a flophouse apartment.
—Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flophouse
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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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 Bowery Hotel Less a restaurant, more a Lower East Side celeb dorm.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 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
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At the University of Florida, police cleared an encampment within hours; classes and graduation proceeded without disruption.—
Jason Jewell,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
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On homelessness, McCann took ownership of the city’s current strategy, citing the creation of the Homeless Outreach Team, the opening of a transitional shelter called the Chula Vista Village at Otay and the encampment ban as products of his leadership.—
Walker Armstrong,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouse. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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