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Recent Examples of flophouse
After Chili's twin sister, Jellybean, was found dead in a Kansas City flophouse, Chili began a downward spiral and was eventually caught drinking on the job by Brett.
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Breanne L. Heldman, People.com, 18 July 2025
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.
—Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 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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Breanne L. Heldman, People.com, 18 July 2025
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.
—Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 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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Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Her cousin becomes suspicious when Levi returns to the boardinghouse alone.—
Oline H. Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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One evening in early 1944, four emaciated young women, attempting to rouse themselves from their grim prison conditions, began a secret performance of Beethoven’s Pathétique sonata in the cold and cramped barrack that also served as their dormitory, practice room, eating place and parcel depot.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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An individual seen wielding what appeared to be a firearm near a Massachusetts university dormitory, prompting a shelter-in-place order and large law enforcement response, has been identified as a juvenile holding an airsoft replica firearm, police said Thursday.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Living Spaces also has an extensive selection of furnishings for kids’ and teens’ rooms and its website features ideas for furnishing a kid’s playroom, a teenager’s hangout space and a college student’s dorm room.—
Liz Ohanesian,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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Angry, Sam goes to a dorm room and starts trashing it.—
Olivia Singh,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The latter shooting occurred at an encampment in a vacant parking lot the city has previously attempted to close, according to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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Her car sputtered to a stop in the middle of the road near a crowded homeless encampment under the freeway.—
Laura Kwerel,
NPR,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouse. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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