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College dorm rooms had posters of the facts tacked to walls.
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Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
And cold enough that his parents had to buy him heated gloves to protect his hands on the walk from dorm to gym, a distance of about five minutes.
—Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 18 Mar. 2026
Suddenly the Shaggs were an ’80s dorm-room favorite, and suddenly — a personal aside here — fans like me were actually naming their cats Foot Foot.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
The libretto by Clare Fuyuko Bierman concerns three young men in a UCLA dorm room, two of whom are obsessed with a dark version of masculinity and are radicalizing each other.
—Michael Zwiebach, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026
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Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
And cold enough that his parents had to buy him heated gloves to protect his hands on the walk from dorm to gym, a distance of about five minutes.
—Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 18 Mar. 2026
Suddenly the Shaggs were an ’80s dorm-room favorite, and suddenly — a personal aside here — fans like me were actually naming their cats Foot Foot.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
The libretto by Clare Fuyuko Bierman concerns three young men in a UCLA dorm room, two of whom are obsessed with a dark version of masculinity and are radicalizing each other.
—Michael Zwiebach, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorm
Noun
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In an interview, Miguel, a carpenter who has lived in the area for 11 years, said the men worked and lived on his property, with four of them staying in a small dormitory.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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The James Stukel Towers are four-tower a dormitory with for, five, and eight-person suites.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Platter came from Basel, Switzerland, where his father ran a school, four boardinghouses, a farm, and a printing press.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Restaurant options include the classic Paesano; Henry’s Hi-Life, located in a former boardinghouse; and the Littlest Little Italy, which comprises several eateries and a wine shop.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
19 Jan. 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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Back in the day, the LaSalle Hotel was a flophouse, just about the only place for downtown residents.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorm. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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