dorm
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In the western city of Herat, notices posted on the walls of a university and its dorm warned that anyone caught with a smartphone on campus would face "legal action".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Although Celenza hopes to continue spreading the message that eating healthy and high quality doesn’t have to come with a huge price tag, the struggle was never only about being broke in a dorm kitchen.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
As the class of 2026 looks toward the future after securing their diplomas, some are preparing to move from their dorm room back to their childhood bedroom.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
It was like being back in college, except this shiny new dorm was in an office building a block from Waikiki Beach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
I asked Francis on the way to her dorm.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
He flies into the city every Monday for his job, stays in free dorms for firefighters during the week, and returns to Idaho every Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
In a documentary capturing the band's early days, the trainees were berated for posting photos from their dorms on social media.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Castellano and his co-founder, Nebiyu Demie, who met working campus jobs as freshman computer science students, moved out of the dorms and straight into an apartment complex owned by their investors, Cambridge-based Link Ventures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
She recalls that a few weeks after she arrived at the home, she first began hearing "whispers about what was going on in the girls' dorms".
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
Beside a huge, misshapen hill, the car descended into a complex of rectangular buildings, as squat as ugly dorms and painted the color of dried grass.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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