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Recent Examples of dormitory
Satellite image shows that the Niger state school compound is attached to an adjoining primary school, with more than 50 classroom and dormitory buildings.
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NPR, 23 Nov. 2025
The letter cited a Wall Street Journal report last month describing special accommodations for Maxwell’s visitors and other perks, such as meals sent to her dormitory room, late-night workouts and her ability to shower after other inmates were already in bed for the night.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 8 Nov. 2025
The complaint alleges that election officials required on-campus students to provide information including a dormitory name and room number with their voter registration applications.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Combs is staying in a dormitory-style unit in the prison.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
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NPR, 23 Nov. 2025
The letter cited a Wall Street Journal report last month describing special accommodations for Maxwell’s visitors and other perks, such as meals sent to her dormitory room, late-night workouts and her ability to shower after other inmates were already in bed for the night.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 8 Nov. 2025
The complaint alleges that election officials required on-campus students to provide information including a dormitory name and room number with their voter registration applications.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Combs is staying in a dormitory-style unit in the prison.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dormitory
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In 2018, Ali Grace, founder and CEO of her namesake brand, was sitting in her dorm room at the University of Massachusetts Amherst when the frustration of finding jeans that fit finally hit a tipping point.—
Andre Claudio,
Sourcing Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
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The dorm was supposed to be on lockdown.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Many of the locals worked in factories and slept in flophouses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
31 Oct. 2025
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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
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“Dormitory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dormitory. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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