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Recent Examples of dormitory
On a campus tour in early March, Mr. Hill pointed to construction sites for a new theater building and a rebuilt dormitory.
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Christopher Maag, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
She was held in a Louisiana detention center with some 90 women in her dormitory.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
Real estate Universities collectively possess a real estate portfolio of land and buildings—including lecture halls, stages, dining facilities, stadiums, and dormitories—that would make even a developer like Donald Trump salivate.
—Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
February 20, 2025 ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Dinner SOS, test kitchen director and host Chris Morocco is joined by test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk to help Karen, a busy graduate student dealing with the limits of a dormitory kitchen, on her quest to find no-cook lunch recipe solutions.
—Bon Appétit, 20 Feb. 2025
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Christopher Maag, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
She was held in a Louisiana detention center with some 90 women in her dormitory.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
Real estate Universities collectively possess a real estate portfolio of land and buildings—including lecture halls, stages, dining facilities, stadiums, and dormitories—that would make even a developer like Donald Trump salivate.
—Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
February 20, 2025 ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Dinner SOS, test kitchen director and host Chris Morocco is joined by test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk to help Karen, a busy graduate student dealing with the limits of a dormitory kitchen, on her quest to find no-cook lunch recipe solutions.
—Bon Appétit, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dormitory
Noun
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Drawn by the image of red-brick walls, dorm life, and first-time independence, teenagers transitioning out of high school spend hours researching private and public colleges and universities.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Carmen is clueless at first about why things aren’t clicking with Benny in the bedroom (or more like the dorm room).—
Manuel Betancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Her cousin becomes suspicious when Levi returns to the boardinghouse alone.—
Oline H. Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
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True enough, perhaps, but Isabel was not pleased on finding herself in the company of boardinghouse people.—
Charles Portis,
Harper's Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Authorities belatedly removed the girl from the flophouse, which did not go over well with Ronald Joseph.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
2 Apr. 2025
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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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“Dormitory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dormitory. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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