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Recent Examples of dorm
She was last seen leaving a party near her dorm on Memorial Day weekend in 1996 in the company of a fellow student, Flores.
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 7 May 2026
His savings had run out, his father had stopped financially supporting his tuition, and in his final days on campus, he was suspended for bringing a woman to his dorm room, according to his memoir.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
The young Turner enrolled at Brown University in 1956, but he was kicked out three years later, reportedly for having a woman in his dorm room.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 6 May 2026
The case of 19-year-old Kristin Smart, who was murdered in her California Polytechnic State University dorm room in 1996, went cold until 2019 when Christopher Lambert, then a Cal Poly student, started a podcast, Your Own Backyard.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 May 2026
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 7 May 2026
His savings had run out, his father had stopped financially supporting his tuition, and in his final days on campus, he was suspended for bringing a woman to his dorm room, according to his memoir.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
The young Turner enrolled at Brown University in 1956, but he was kicked out three years later, reportedly for having a woman in his dorm room.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 6 May 2026
The case of 19-year-old Kristin Smart, who was murdered in her California Polytechnic State University dorm room in 1996, went cold until 2019 when Christopher Lambert, then a Cal Poly student, started a podcast, Your Own Backyard.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorm
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She was held in a dormitory-style room with 58 other women, mostly mothers.—
Jade le Deley,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Turner lore suggested the college student was expelled from the Ivy League school for having a female student in his dormitory room.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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As always, verisimilitude and the supernatural exist side by side in this tale of the denizens of a boardinghouse in Pittsburgh.—
Scott Hocker,
TheWeek,
15 May 2026
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Bertha runs a Pittsburgh boardinghouse with her husband, Seth, played by Cedric the Entertainer, in 1911 and is part of an ensemble of Black characters a generation removed from enslavement.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
13 May 2026
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Our flophouse in Harlem was growing crowded.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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His novels keep alive the Albany of the 1930s: the domain of swells, sports, and bums, of women with appetites, of flophouses and bowling alleys in the dark hours.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorm. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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