dorm

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Recent Examples of dorm Her friends slept on the floor in her dorm room beside her. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025 Whether in his college dorm or parents’ basement, music became a creative escape that would later become the launch pad for his emerging empire. Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025 For a budget desk upgrade, this checks a lot of boxes for a second screen, dorm setup, or a compact work-from-home station. PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025 Amy Morrell, 53, a direct care staff member at the school, and other staff were attempting to restrain the teen, who officials say had been trying to leave a dorm building without permission, when the student allegedly kicked her in the chest, according to the district attorney's office. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dorm
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Noun
  • Kurt later found his son in a dormitory in Austria.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The first shooting happened on campus near the Hugine Suites, a student dormitory, triggering a campuswide lockdown, according to a statement from the university’s media relations department.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • After Chili's twin sister, Jellybean, was found dead in a Kansas City flophouse, Chili began a downward spiral and was eventually caught drinking on the job by Brett.
    Breanne L. Heldman, People.com, 18 July 2025

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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorm. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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