as in hotels
a building where people pay to live and have daily meals
a onetime boardinghouse that is now the site of the town's historical museum
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Check-in and Check-out Times and Procedures Many hotels extend the opportunity for early check-in and late check-out when their housekeeping calendar aligns.—
Karla Walsh,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025 -
There was no place for the highly perishable product to go because the marketplace for dairy products was gutted by the closure of restaurants, schools, hotels and food-service businesses.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Lone Goat This English pub, which draws inspiration from public houses and taverns of London, is on the ground floor of the historic Metropolitan Building in downtown Detroit.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Many have been converted into restaurants, taverns, or artisan’s shops, but people still live in some of them, and others are available as vacation rentals.—
Fiona Mozley,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
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And our best times at motels were spent swimming in the dark in the motel pool.—
Anne Carson,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Boardinghouses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boardinghouses. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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