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dormitory

[dawr-mi-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈdɔr mɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /
NOUN
living quarters
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Sheets, backpacks, and outstretched bodies transform the emblematic seafront promenade into an open-air dormitory for a few hours.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

The room had been used as a dormitory when it was a nuclear bunker and he could "see where the outline of all the beds were".

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

This subterranean dormitory is run by Halyna Mysnyk, a 44-year-old subway employee in a red hat and a navy fleece.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Detainees in his dormitory submitted a grievance about commissary prices, Parada Calderon said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Then grabbing a skein of the dark gray wool, I dashed through the dormitory door.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

One chimpanzee, Yvan, eventually picked up the crystal and deliberately carried it back to the dormitories.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

And accommodation at BAS facilities is shared dormitories.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2026

For now, he said, families are crowded into a block of 20 buildings with one-room student dormitories roughly six miles away from the camp.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 24, 2025

UChicago built new dormitories, dining areas, a new library and an arts center that takes up a whole city block.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

He wasn’t “Warrior Okojo,” he was Kam, the boy who’d once snuck with Ekon from the temple’s dormitories down to the kitchens for late-night feasts of red grapes and mango juice.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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