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Recent Examples of motel
This middle-of-nowhere motel has become a big draw for astrophotographers.
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Julia Duin, Outside Online, 6 June 2025
Employers must avoid using housing status, such as listing a shelter or motel, as a proxy for professionalism or reliability.
—Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
As the warmth of the motel room started to thaw me, my hands
and face started to tingle.
—Mike Rayder, Hartford Courant, 5 June 2025
Healey has pledged to close all hotels and motels serving as shelters by the end of the year.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
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Julia Duin, Outside Online, 6 June 2025
Employers must avoid using housing status, such as listing a shelter or motel, as a proxy for professionalism or reliability.
—Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
As the warmth of the motel room started to thaw me, my hands
and face started to tingle.
—Mike Rayder, Hartford Courant, 5 June 2025
Healey has pledged to close all hotels and motels serving as shelters by the end of the year.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motel
Noun
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The light and airy interior features a cinema lounge, a gym, a spa with sauna and steam room, and a beach club with a bar that opens directly onto the outdoor swim platform.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
16 June 2025
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Gizelle goes on a dinner date with Theo and a spa excursion with Phil Westbrooks, which ends with a kiss — a first for Gizelle on the show.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
16 June 2025
Noun
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Cunningham was ultimately located and arrested at a Disney resort on June 3.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
8 June 2025
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The resort is home to the first casino in The St. Regis portfolio, which welcomes hotel guests and local residents.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
7 June 2025
Noun
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Choosing wineries based on atmosphere, timing visits to avoid loud and boisterous crowds and booking accommodations nearby all help in making the most of a Hamptons wine tour.—
Rachel King,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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The big league experience extends to players, who enjoy better accommodations and better food, and to fans, who get to see some of the best athletes in the world in venues representative of some of the most iconic cities in North America.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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While Travis Decker was nowhere to be found, investigators traced his cell phone, which revealed that visited the same campground the day before the kidnapping, the court papers show.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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Officials believe that Decker traveled to the campground where the girls' bodies were found on Thursday evening and returned the next day with his three children, according to court documents.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
5 June 2025
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To further address youth housing affordability, the government will continue its Youth Hostel Scheme, which subsidizes non-governmental organizations’ renting of hotels and guesthouses for use as youth hostels.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2024
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After all, youth hostels have been around for over a century.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2024
Noun
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Set at the edge of the downtown Taos, New Mexico's historic district, this 51-room boutique hotel reimagines a 1960s adobe-style motor lodge into a sanctuary for art lovers and design-forward travelers.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
5 June 2025
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If a lodging’s guest rooms open directly to the outdoors and there’s a parking lot handy, industry experts say, it probably was born as a motel or motor lodge.—
Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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Built in 1939, this is a true motor inn, with garages between the rooms for parking your car.—
Catherine Garcia,
theweek,
19 July 2024
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This retro spot opened in 1956 as a motor inn and today offers modern amenities along with vintage charm.—
Catherine Garcia,
theweek,
2 May 2024
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Fewer still remember the traditions of autocamps and tourist courts.—
Andrew Wood,
Smithsonian,
30 June 2017
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By the 1930s and ‘40’s, cottage courts (also known as tourist courts) emerged as a classier alternative to dingy cabin camps.—
Andrew Wood,
Smithsonian,
30 June 2017
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“Motel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motel. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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