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Recent Examples of flophouse
Back in the day, the LaSalle Hotel was a flophouse, just about the only place for downtown residents.
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
In one stunning moment, Marty, trying to take a shower in a flophouse, ends up falling through the ceiling and onto a shady man (Abel Ferrara) trying to give his dog a bath in the unit below.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
In a recurring theme, an unmarried female Haitian in the flophouse is pregnant.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
What was built was a 29-story baby-poop brown block of a building that looked like a cheap heating unit jutting out of a wall in a flophouse apartment.
—Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2016
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
In one stunning moment, Marty, trying to take a shower in a flophouse, ends up falling through the ceiling and onto a shady man (Abel Ferrara) trying to give his dog a bath in the unit below.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
In a recurring theme, an unmarried female Haitian in the flophouse is pregnant.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
What was built was a 29-story baby-poop brown block of a building that looked like a cheap heating unit jutting out of a wall in a flophouse apartment.
—Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flophouse
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Opponents say bill makes women less safe Instances of trans people perpetrating violence in public bathrooms, locker rooms and dorm rooms are exceedingly rare.—
Jack Harvel
April 20,
Kansas City Star,
21 Apr. 2026
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These two beacons of truth and connoisseurs of mess have been bonded for over a decade, sharing the traumas of a crappy Boston dorm room and a pitiful Brooklyn dating scene.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2026
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Ultimately, this will mean more encampments, more preventable deaths in the streets, and more individuals and families with no other option but to live in unsafe and unacceptable conditions.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Pasco is facing a murder charge for the shooting, which took place Friday morning outside the Lake County WIC office on Griffin Road, where a nearby homeless encampment is located.—
Cristóbal Reyes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouse. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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