dormitory
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The room had been used as a dormitory when it was a nuclear bunker and he could "see where the outline of all the beds were".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
This subterranean dormitory is run by Halyna Mysnyk, a 44-year-old subway employee in a red hat and a navy fleece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The 28 May fire tore through the upper floor of a dormitory containing 135 bunk beds and housing 202 students, forcing them to flee through a single doorway after the emergency exit failed to open.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
The boy's bed was empty when his roommates woke up in a dormitory at the seaside camp in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
To his credit, Elliot didn’t try to ask me a million questions; instead he just turned and disappeared through the dark doorway of the boys’ dormitory.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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One chimpanzee, Yvan, eventually picked up the crystal and deliberately carried it back to the dormitories.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Twenty-one qualified for training, living together in dormitories while taking dawn to dusk lessons in singing, dancing and speaking in multiple languages.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
For now, he said, families are crowded into a block of 20 buildings with one-room student dormitories roughly six miles away from the camp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
UChicago built new dormitories, dining areas, a new library and an arts center that takes up a whole city block.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The fiddler came from this or that plantation, the banjo man from another state: Every day the musicians in the dormitories shared the melodies from their regions and the body of music grew.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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