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Recent Examples of dorm
Classrooms, dorm doors, quads, bulletin boards, sidewalks, ceremonies — these are all places where speech once flourished.
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Aileen Favilla, New York Daily News, 4 May 2026
Fitzpatrick said that most inmates in Texas prisons, including those serving a life sentence without parole for capital murder, are housed either in a dorm type of environment or in a cellbock with other prisoners.
—Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2026
The case of 19-year-old Kristin Smart, who was murdered in her California Polytechnic State University dorm room in 1996, went cold until 2019 when Christopher Lambert, then a Cal Poly student, started a podcast, Your Own Backyard.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 May 2026
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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Aileen Favilla, New York Daily News, 4 May 2026
Fitzpatrick said that most inmates in Texas prisons, including those serving a life sentence without parole for capital murder, are housed either in a dorm type of environment or in a cellbock with other prisoners.
—Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2026
The case of 19-year-old Kristin Smart, who was murdered in her California Polytechnic State University dorm room in 1996, went cold until 2019 when Christopher Lambert, then a Cal Poly student, started a podcast, Your Own Backyard.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 May 2026
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorm
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She was held in a dormitory-style room with 58 other women, mostly mothers.—
Jade le Deley,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Turner lore suggested the college student was expelled from the Ivy League school for having a female student in his dormitory room.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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By the eve of World War I, Opatija boasted 24 hotels, 36 boardinghouses, and 12 sanatoriums attended by 80 physicians.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
8 May 2026
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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
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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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorm. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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