dorm

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The trucker catalogs diesel prices each time she fuels up for the roughly 500-mile round trip she makes six nights a week hauling modular dorm rooms from outside Los Angeles to California Polytechnic State University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

By 2024, he was working at a sweater factory, sending money home, and returning from his dorm with chocolates for his infant daughter, spending evenings watching cartoons on TV.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

Ablaye, whose name has also been changed, came to retrieve some of his personal belongings from his dorm.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

When Ben Rosenfeld started working as a residential assistant at a Stanford University dorm, he encountered 77 freshmen possessed by an “all-consuming” force.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

With that in mind, I broke into a jog that ate up the quarter mile between the simulation building and my dorm in a matter of minutes.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin