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For the design of Rory’s shabby-chic dorm suite, Crasco reflected on her own overnight stay on the New Haven, Connecticut, campus back in high school.
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Mara Reinstein, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025
In the book, an unnamed narrator moves into the Kennedy dorm room once occupied by Foster Dade, who had transferred to the boarding school in 2008 but was later expelled due to a scandal that the narrator investigates over the course of years.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
His parents had left their home and careers to come live beside him, moving into the Winthrop House dorm on the Charles River.
—Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Another questioned how to handle their daughter's boyfriend visiting her dorm and considered involving his parents.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
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Mara Reinstein, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025
In the book, an unnamed narrator moves into the Kennedy dorm room once occupied by Foster Dade, who had transferred to the boarding school in 2008 but was later expelled due to a scandal that the narrator investigates over the course of years.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
His parents had left their home and careers to come live beside him, moving into the Winthrop House dorm on the Charles River.
—Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Another questioned how to handle their daughter's boyfriend visiting her dorm and considered involving his parents.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorm
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The complaint alleges that election officials required on-campus students to provide information including a dormitory name and room number with their voter registration applications.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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Combs is staying in a dormitory-style unit in the prison.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
1 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The daughter of a widowed boardinghouse keeper, Mary moved with her mother to Manhattan and, as a teenager, began working behind the counter at John Anderson’s Liberty Street Cigar Shop in Lower Manhattan.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Many of the locals worked in factories and slept in flophouses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
31 Oct. 2025
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The setting is a dusty town square, bordered on one side by the posh Siete Mares Hotel and on the other by the city’s worst quarter, fronted by the Ritz Men Only, a dangerous flophouse.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
25 July 2025
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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorm. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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