apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building The building was acquired by the Chicago real estate developers Draper and Kramer, who obtained approval in 2023 for a nine-story apartment building with ground-floor retail (most likely restaurant space). Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025 Residential is returning to the street in the form of large apartment buildings. Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 22 July 2025 Elizabeth was found dead inside a trash chute of her son’s apartment building in Miami Beach on Sunday, during a welfare check requested by her son-in-law. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025 But because the phones’ locations seemed to switch back and forth between the apartment building and church, that seems unlikely, experts say. Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 22 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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tenement house
Noun
  • 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
  • The Tenement Museum comprises two preserved tenement houses on the Lower East Side.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025

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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20building. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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