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Recent Examples of flophouse
The place had opened a year and half before on the ground floor of a notorious Bowery flophouse called, with perfect New York irony, the Palace Hotel.
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Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 2025
Decrepit office buildings and flophouse hotels have been remade into pricey lofts and townhouses, the coolest address being where prizefighters Depp and Heard went at it tooth and nail, an art deco masterpiece called the Eastern Guardian Building, with its eerie clock tower and greenish glow.
—David Weiss, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
One regular, Milt, lived in the Whitehouse Hotel, a flophouse around the corner.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 2025
Decrepit office buildings and flophouse hotels have been remade into pricey lofts and townhouses, the coolest address being where prizefighters Depp and Heard went at it tooth and nail, an art deco masterpiece called the Eastern Guardian Building, with its eerie clock tower and greenish glow.
—David Weiss, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
One regular, Milt, lived in the Whitehouse Hotel, a flophouse around the corner.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flophouse
Noun
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Two sisters working at a modest boardinghouse prepare for the arrival of a Hollywood screenwriter and his family.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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At its peak, Edgewater was home to 200-300 residents, living in 20 to 30 houses, with the company store housing a post office, hotel/boardinghouse and general store, along with a blacksmith shop, horse barn and school, Heiman said.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Players live in a large dormitory, get to know each other and then play to send each other home.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
17 Jan. 2026
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In 2011, when Sinha was in college, he was found unconscious in his dormitory.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Mark Zuckerberg in his dorm room.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Now, back in her dorm room, Wrigley assures her that nobody thinks that, least of all Evan, who is still obsessed with her.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Located about a mile from this week’s campaign stop, the park once housed San Jose’s largest encampment and has been the site of multiple fires and a fatal stabbing in recent years.—
Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2026
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The effort also will target high-risk encampments along the South Dallas transportation route for the FIFA World Cup, according to county officials, drawing hundreds of thousands of international soccer fans this summer.—
Tracey McManus,
Dallas Morning News,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouse. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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