dormitory
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On Sunday Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said both residential and non-residential buildings had been damaged in the latest attacks, including a supermarket and a dormitory.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Kenya has a long history of school fires - just two years ago at least 21 people died in a dormitory fire in central Kenya.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
One dormitory had one toilet for 31 people, they found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
As night fell, forensic investigations continued as white body bags were brought out and lined up outside the dormitory, an AFP journalist saw.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
The starfolk carried several marvel-valises from dormitory towers.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
One chimpanzee, Yvan, eventually picked up the crystal and deliberately carried it back to the dormitories.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Overcrowding in dormitories and the failure to follow safety guidelines have frequently been blamed for the high number of casualties.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
The new rules do not apply to notorious "coffin homes", cubicles stacked on top of each other like bunk beds in shabby dormitories.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Matsushita students lived in dormitories and woke at 6 a.m. to clean the school top to bottom, said Hiroto Abe, who attended the institute and overlapped with Takaichi in the early 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
She’d seen it in Caesar, in the bodies of the new arrivals to the dormitories, and knew she’d exhibited it many times.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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