as in lodging house
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Recent Examples of rooming house
Once at the scene of the crime, Schapiro made his way across the street to a rooming house from where he was told the gunman had shot King.
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Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025
His parents ran a luncheonette and rooming house near factories whose immigrant workers came in to eat.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
The four-story, 250-room building has operated in recent decades as a downmarket rooming house.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
The Fall River fire is the deadliest Massachusetts has seen since 1984, when 15 people died in a Beverly rooming house.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 14 July 2025
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Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025
His parents ran a luncheonette and rooming house near factories whose immigrant workers came in to eat.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
The four-story, 250-room building has operated in recent decades as a downmarket rooming house.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
The Fall River fire is the deadliest Massachusetts has seen since 1984, when 15 people died in a Beverly rooming house.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rooming house
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The backyard of the lodging house on Hanbury Street, where Annie Chapman died, had three possible exits through neighboring yards; there were five at Mitre Square, where forty-six-year-old Catherine Eddowes bled out in a dark corner.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
31 Oct. 2025
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Research trips took them to local lodging houses, private family homes, and vintage Deco hotels including Bombay’s Bentley’s Hotel and Sea Green Hotel on Marine Drive.—
Nicole Trilivas,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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If one were to use that fundamental mathematical principle — often referenced as if A=B and B=C then A=C — entering Thursday’s Class 4A state football quarterfinal, things did not look promising for Hill-Murray but did for Kasson-Mantorville.—
Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
7 Nov. 2025
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The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday that out of 941 Iranian drones detected since the start of the Iran war, 65 fell within its territory, damaging ports, airports, hotels and data centers.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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Returning late from the PBR event to find downtown kitchens largely dark, the hotel lobby bar server overheard that my partner and I were starving.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Rooming house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rooming%20house. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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