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as in penthouse
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house
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as in room
an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall
the museum sets aside this large central apartment to display special exhibitions
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Recent Examples of apartment
Photos of the aftermath show toys and shoes littering the apartment hallways, evidence of those pulled from their beds by the operation that included FBI and Homeland Security agents.
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Rebecca Schneid, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Inside the LaMarr Franklin Lofts The new lofts will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.
—Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025
My room—over 500 square feet—was larger than my first New York apartment.
—Lisa Greissinger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Mattioli reconfigured the apartment’s long and narrow footprint by defining each area through color, lighting, and architectural alterations.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 4 Oct. 2025
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Rebecca Schneid, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Inside the LaMarr Franklin Lofts The new lofts will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.
—Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025
My room—over 500 square feet—was larger than my first New York apartment.
—Lisa Greissinger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Mattioli reconfigured the apartment’s long and narrow footprint by defining each area through color, lighting, and architectural alterations.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 4 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment
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The 97-unit building, with studios to three-bedroom penthouses, features finishes and layouts typically reserved for condominiums, 17 private terraces, and a penthouse commanding $35,000 per month.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
6 Oct. 2025
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In addition, the penthouse of the Hot 100 has been unusually stagnant over the past year, with smashes remaining in the top 10 for months on end.—
Jason Lipshutz,
Billboard,
2 Oct. 2025
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Williams — joined by family members, current and past KU coaches, players and support staff — on Tuesday afternoon cut the ribbon on the room that bears his name.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
8 Oct. 2025
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Carrying it around feels more like lugging a speaker than a dainty portable gadget, but that handle makes moving it between rooms surprisingly manageable.—
Jade Chung-Lee,
PC Magazine,
8 Oct. 2025
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Staying in affordable cabin lodgings has its own romantic charm in many cases.—
Wendy Altschuler,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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All around the world, bold new lodgings are luring discerning travelers in search of beauty, glamour, and the unexpected.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
11 Aug. 2025
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Levy built the gate on land owned by the homeowners association of an adjacent bluff-top condominium complex.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Other lodges followed, but most have since closed, replaced with mansions or condominium developments.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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He was escorted to the suite shortly before kickoff and left through the press box just as the game ended.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
11 Oct. 2025
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Patel is not alone in having risen from the service floor to the C-suite.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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The move reignites a trade war between the world's two largest economies after the United States and China had for months maintained a truce that has kept tariffs on each other flat.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
11 Oct. 2025
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Gomez even styled the dress with cream Mary Jane flats, in keeping with the head-to-toe bridal feel.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
10 Oct. 2025
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At one point, Lloyd tells the students about a parade near the Moores' tenement, celebrating the passage of the 15th Amendment, which granted Black men the right to vote.—
Cory Turner,
NPR,
10 Oct. 2025
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In 1909, just a few days after their mother, Sara, gave birth to Daniel, one of these boys, four-year-old George, fell to his death while playing on the roof of their tenement building on the Lower East Side.—
David Kamp,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
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Click here for more photos of the Miami Beach condo of the late Luigi Caiola.—
Mark David,
Robb Report,
1 Oct. 2025
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Neighboring Atavia to the east is Belgravia’s other condo project, Portico, the company’s first in Arizona.—
Shawn Raymundo,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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