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dormitory

noun as in living quarters

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Sister Jean lived on the top floor of Regis Hall, a campus dormitory that housed mostly freshmen.

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These mill towns employed young women from rural New England, providing dormitory housing and attempting to maintain moral oversight while maximizing efficiency.

About an hour and a half later, medical staff sent him back to his dormitory.

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The trade, she recalls, left "beaded girls in the dormitories and bare-horned cows in the meadows".

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The outlets in his dormitory were inoperable, and because of the overcrowding and short-staffing, guards couldn’t take him to another area to plug them in, said his fiancee, Mildred Pierre.

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