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Beginning with the Beat Generation, slowly and gently, like pot smoke seeping from a college dorm room, America’s counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s insinuated itself in unlikely places with unexpected results.
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Lewis Jacobsen, Air Mail, 23 May 2026
The event allows students to gather free dorm essentials, from clothes to small furniture.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 May 2026
Using old sentimental school shirts can also make for a thoughtful DIY home decor piece to keep in your living room, or send to your child's first college dorm.
—Nishaa Sharma, The Spruce, 20 May 2026
Removable adhesive hooks, small plastic hooks that stick to walls without nails or screws, round out the list for renters and dorm dwellers.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
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Lewis Jacobsen, Air Mail, 23 May 2026
The event allows students to gather free dorm essentials, from clothes to small furniture.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 May 2026
Using old sentimental school shirts can also make for a thoughtful DIY home decor piece to keep in your living room, or send to your child's first college dorm.
—Nishaa Sharma, The Spruce, 20 May 2026
Removable adhesive hooks, small plastic hooks that stick to walls without nails or screws, round out the list for renters and dorm dwellers.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorm
Noun
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The fire on May 28 ripped through the Utumishi Girls School dormitory that houses 202 students.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
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Kyiv denies targeting the dormitory.—
Valentyn Ogirenko,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
Noun
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Set in 1940s Mexico, the book follows a con artist who becomes intertwined in the schemes of a boardinghouse owner and her niece.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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As always, verisimilitude and the supernatural exist side by side in this tale of the denizens of a boardinghouse in Pittsburgh.—
Scott Hocker,
TheWeek,
15 May 2026
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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 4 Jun. 2026.
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