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rooming house

NOUN
house renting out rooms
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This explosive, eye-opening work came from Ivy League professor Desmond moving to a trailer park and rooming house in a poverty-stricken part of Milwaukee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

“My mother ran a rooming house on West 77th Street in the 1920s,” Mr. Storch told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

While living in a rooming house on Manhattan’s East 67th Street, he met a blond public school teacher named Marion Raymond who was finishing her master’s thesis.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2022

After moving out of the rooming house, he rented an apartment nearby, where he again had trouble with his neighbors.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

Then, I got a cheaper room at Mrs. Fisher’s rooming house which was close to the YMCA.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey


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