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Recent Examples of dorm
He is allowed out when the dorm he is housed in is mostly empty.
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Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
The dorm was to be funded by the late billionaire Charles Munger, who designed the building with Van Tilburg, Banvard, & Soderbergh.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Dec. 2024
On one night, the dorm becomes the site of a massacre, with players violently assaulting each other while the guards deliberately flashed the lights on and off.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 20 Dec. 2024
Sitting in a Cairo dorm room, Ms. Alrashid and Ms. Suleiman were out of choices.
—Kate Okorie, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
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Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
The dorm was to be funded by the late billionaire Charles Munger, who designed the building with Van Tilburg, Banvard, & Soderbergh.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Dec. 2024
On one night, the dorm becomes the site of a massacre, with players violently assaulting each other while the guards deliberately flashed the lights on and off.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 20 Dec. 2024
Sitting in a Cairo dorm room, Ms. Alrashid and Ms. Suleiman were out of choices.
—Kate Okorie, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorm
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This space serves as the path to the Masked Managers’ dormitory and also as the setting for the players’ rebellion against the Front Man.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
28 Dec. 2024
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Still, the mood in the men’s tent is one of dormitory camaraderie.—
ByJon Cohen,
science.org,
9 Dec. 2024
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At the boardinghouse, proprietress Fräulein Schneider and her Jewish tenant, Herr Schultz, who owns a fruit store, begin a serious romance with plans to marry.—
Oline Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2024
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Blackpool, sweeping the planks of his mother’s boardinghouse while listening to a staticky radio broadcast.—
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
3 Sep. 2024
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There aren’t any flophouses in her this-year’s-hometown of Arlington.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2024
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The only thing the teachers are looking for in their new towns are… no flophouses.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2024
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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorm. Accessed 25 Jan. 2025.
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