dormitory
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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
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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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