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Recent Examples of dormitory
The site in Chile will eventually be fully autonomous, with its own power source, dormitory, warehouse and administrative buildings.
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Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
On top of all of this, Kitty was technically expelled for living with Dae, Min Ho and Q in the boys’ dormitory.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
And at Goucher College, air raid wardens were selected for each of its eight dormitories; all were female students.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
Welby attended camps run by Smyth in the late 1970s, first as a camper and then as a dormitory officer.
—Arion McNicoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 13 Nov. 2024
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Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
On top of all of this, Kitty was technically expelled for living with Dae, Min Ho and Q in the boys’ dormitory.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
And at Goucher College, air raid wardens were selected for each of its eight dormitories; all were female students.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
Welby attended camps run by Smyth in the late 1970s, first as a camper and then as a dormitory officer.
—Arion McNicoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 13 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dormitory
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Sitting in a Cairo dorm room, Ms. Alrashid and Ms. Suleiman were out of choices.Kate Okorie, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
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In his dorm room, campus police had discovered a suicide note as well as a corkboard covered in thumbtacks that seemed to map out the school’s underground steam tunnels.Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
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At the boardinghouse, proprietress Fräulein Schneider and her Jewish tenant, Herr Schultz, who owns a fruit store, begin a serious romance with plans to marry.Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
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Blackpool, sweeping the planks of his mother’s boardinghouse while listening to a staticky radio broadcast.Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
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The only thing the teachers are looking for in their new towns are… no flophouses.Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 May 2024
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The first night at the flophouse, Barbosa slept on the floor.Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
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“Dormitory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dormitory. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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