dormitory
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In 1999, plainclothes police raided a student dormitory following a demonstration, triggering days of mass protests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
At a dormitory there in her freshman year she discovered luxury: a bed of her own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Lam Thanh, 50, who manages a dormitory for workers near one of Ho Chi Minh City's estimated 1,000 courts, says the cacophony is proving to be costly.
From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025
She was rushed to hospital, haemorrhaging, from her university dormitory.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
No rain came through the roof; it had the best bed I had ever slept on; and there was a shower in a building near the dormitory.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
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