apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building In Israel, rescue authorities searched for three people in the northern city of Haifa after an apartment building was hit. ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026 That’s more than $12 million for a relatively modest 150-apartment building! Leila Bozorg, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026 With the help of his pal and co-writer, Sokolov’s real-life experience in the peculiar apartment building blossomed into They Will Kill You, which premiered at SXSW 2026 in March. Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 4 Apr. 2026 Police later found Bowen by using license-plate reader data, which showed his Ford F-150 in a parking lot at an apartment building at 551 NW 42nd Ave. Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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Noun
  • Completed in 1910, the 15-story apartment house includes a doorman, live-in superintendent, and rooftop terrace.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Investigators said Kaylee Goncalves, 21, was fatally stabbed on the third floor of the apartment house in the same room with another victim, Madison Mogen, 21.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
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 12 Apr. 2026.

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