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Recent Examples of dorm
New College’s already bloated balance sheet could be saddled with paying USF’s $53 million bill for the new dorm on the property (where most dorm rooms are used by New College students).
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026
In one photo, the proud mom could be seen helping her daughter unpack her dorm room, surrounded by bags and boxes.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
In 2018, Ali Grace, founder and CEO of her namesake brand, was sitting in her dorm room at the University of Massachusetts Amherst when the frustration of finding jeans that fit finally hit a tipping point.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 23 Dec. 2025
The Clery Act The Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act is named for a 19-year-old who was raped and murdered in her dorm room at Lehigh University in 1986, according to the nonprofit Clery Center.
—Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
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Davis became the dean of the dormitory in 2024.—
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There is a note of melancholy associated with the former house, as the dormitory long bore the name of a student, Emily Cluett, who had caught the flu more than a century ago and died.—
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Two sisters working at a modest boardinghouse prepare for the arrival of a Hollywood screenwriter and his family.—
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At its peak, Edgewater was home to 200-300 residents, living in 20 to 30 houses, with the company store housing a post office, hotel/boardinghouse and general store, along with a blacksmith shop, horse barn and school, Heiman said.—
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Many of the locals worked in factories and slept in flophouses.—
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The setting is a dusty town square, bordered on one side by the posh Siete Mares Hotel and on the other by the city’s worst quarter, fronted by the Ritz Men Only, a dangerous flophouse.—
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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorm. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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