hostel
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On Monday, LPU released a video of three women living in the hostel room that had been linked to the alleged assault.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Another student, Aniket Singh, said outsiders had entered a women's hostel and knocked on doors claiming to be police officers.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
A few weeks ago, I met an acquaintance for coffee at a Cuban café attached to a downtown hostel, where people with backpacks of varying dimensions passed steadily through the lobby.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
That night, in a hostel catering to pilgrims, I redid our GPS map to join the Henro route the next day in Kochi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
“Tío doesn’t really have anybody checking into the hostel anymore,” he adds, out of earshot.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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With the help of his mother, he put photos of the children in British magazines such as Picture Post to help find them homes and organised for hostels to take in some refugees too.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
It’s church bells; bunk beds in 15-euro hostels; and some grand cities but also lots of tiny towns that exist because people with backpacks keep arriving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
They were soon joined by young, adventurous backpackers, who filled hostels and traveled on the cheap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The first U.S. case of Andes virus actually occurred in January 2018, in a woman who had stayed in cabins and youth hostels in the Andes region of Argentina and Chile.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
There were a couple of hostels, giant projects built by the government for housing migrant workers.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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Her parental father and his family retinue, large and small, married and unmarried, were hosteled on the 12th floor of the Waldorf.
From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay
When “Should I Stay or Should I Go” blasted from the sound system, it summarized my ambivalence toward the hostel — and about the haute hosteling concept in general.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
Created last year, the place represents a subtrend in haute hosteling: an offsite annex of swish private rooms set up by an established traditional hostel — in this case the Violeta Hostel.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
In fact he devoted a whole chapter of his guide to hostelling.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2018
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