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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 The place had opened a year and half before on the ground floor of a notorious Bowery flophouse called, with perfect New York irony, the Palace Hotel.—Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025 And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses.—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 2025 Authorities belatedly removed the girl from the flophouse, which did not go over well with Ronald Joseph.—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flophouse
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