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Recent Examples of dorm
And Singapore’s new worker dorm tests the government’s public-health pledge.
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Samantha Stewart, Bloomberg, 8 Apr. 2026
Philo crashed in Paul’s dorm room, too, sometimes.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
Those furnishing a guest room or dorm would likely find a twin XL best suited for the space, and small children should do just fine with a twin mattress.
—Sharon Brandwein, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
The university also broke ground this month on a 23-story development of traditional dorm rooms called Bancroft-Fulton Student Housing, on the western edge of campus.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2026
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Samantha Stewart, Bloomberg, 8 Apr. 2026
Philo crashed in Paul’s dorm room, too, sometimes.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
Those furnishing a guest room or dorm would likely find a twin XL best suited for the space, and small children should do just fine with a twin mattress.
—Sharon Brandwein, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
The university also broke ground this month on a 23-story development of traditional dorm rooms called Bancroft-Fulton Student Housing, on the western edge of campus.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorm
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In the unit, which can house only a small group of detainees, the beds are clustered together dormitory-style, and there are no pillows.—
Diego Lasarte,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2026
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The two of them met freshman year in their dormitory at the University of Pennsylvania.—
Maxwell Adler,
Vanity Fair,
16 Apr. 2026
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Ed Simon Goes Back to When the Past was the Future A century ago, at a Waukegan, Illinois boardinghouse run by his grandparents, an auburn-haired, six-year-old boy named Ray Bradbury used to search for copies of Amazing Stories left behind by the guests.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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Behind Jovan, the posse breaks into boardinghouses, yanks a miner from behind a grocery counter, shoots another dead in his home.—
Masha Hamilton,
Longreads,
19 Feb. 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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