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Recent Examples of dormitory
Turner lore suggested the college student was expelled from the Ivy League school for having a female student in his dormitory room.
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Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 7 May 2026
The Eyes must have tossed the Pearl Girls dormitory, too, because Daisy’s pocket radio — the one she’s been hiding inside her bunkmate Thalia’s bed frame — is sitting on the desk.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2026
In 1994, my mother and I moved to Gehrenseestraße, a dormitory housing complex in Alt-Hohenschönhausen, northeast Berlin.
—Pablo Larios, Artforum, 6 May 2026
After the initial incident, Acevedo returned to the dormitory.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2026
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Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 7 May 2026
The Eyes must have tossed the Pearl Girls dormitory, too, because Daisy’s pocket radio — the one she’s been hiding inside her bunkmate Thalia’s bed frame — is sitting on the desk.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2026
In 1994, my mother and I moved to Gehrenseestraße, a dormitory housing complex in Alt-Hohenschönhausen, northeast Berlin.
—Pablo Larios, Artforum, 6 May 2026
After the initial incident, Acevedo returned to the dormitory.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dormitory
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More recently, Mark Zuckerberg, who famously dropped out of Harvard University after launching Facebook from his dorm room, has questioned whether colleges are adequately preparing students for today’s workforce.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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Notes were slipped under her dorm door, and people left her nasty voicemails, text messages, and emails.—
Lyz Lenz,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 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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“Dormitory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dormitory. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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