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dorm

[dawrm] / dɔrm /
NOUN
campus
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NOUN
dormitory
Synonyms




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Ramirez moved into the New North dorm this week.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

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

More than a century later, Cornell apparently still has bears turning up on campus — though university officials would now prefer students not butcher them in the dorm kitchen.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

He lived in a cramped, 12-person dorm room, working the assembly line at BBK Electronics, the precursor to smartphone giants Oppo and Vivo.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

“Good morning,” Elliot said the second I walked out of the dorm the next morning.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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, external, 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

Two guards chase down a reporter and cameraman sprinting toward our dorms.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu




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