apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building Neighbors on Thursday took off work to listen to a hearing at the magistrate between the city and the apartment building. — Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 The housing there is Solis Midtown, a 328-unit apartment building on Harding Place, along with Canopy Realtor Association’s headquarters. — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2026 That’s likely an attempt to minimize any concerns raised by the communities where the service is expanding, given these drones have already been scrutinized for crashing into cranes, internet cables, gardens, and an apartment building. — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 19 Aug. 2026 All three involved searches of a Woodlawn apartment building on the 6800 block of South Dorchester Avenue, records show. — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment building
  1. apartment house
  2. tenement house
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  • The heavy equipment was then set to take off the front of the apartment house where the fire began, because investigators still have not determined the cause of the fire and needed access to find out.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • At the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street, one such residence occupies a stately 1920s apartment house designed by renowned architect Rosario Candela.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
Definition of apartment house
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  • The chef’s table inside the kitchen proves the best seat in this early-20th-century tenement house.
    — Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026
  • Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
    — Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
Definition of tenement house

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