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Magen David Adom, Israel’s rescue service, released video showing a large crater in a street and shrapnel damage to an apartment building.
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Dallas Morning News, 15 Mar. 2026
Opened in 1927 as a high-rise apartment building but converted during the war years into an upscale stay, the Pontchartrain had suffered over decades of rising damp and tumbling fortunes.
—Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
The Mission Viejo City Council has approved what officials said was the first significant housing proposal considered in the city since 2020, a six-story apartment building that redevelops part of the Vista Del Lago apartment community on Marguerite Parkway.
—Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
Erecting an apartment building typically requires a long and unpredictable rezoning process as a result.
—M. Nolan Gray, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
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Dallas Morning News, 15 Mar. 2026
Opened in 1927 as a high-rise apartment building but converted during the war years into an upscale stay, the Pontchartrain had suffered over decades of rising damp and tumbling fortunes.
—Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
The Mission Viejo City Council has approved what officials said was the first significant housing proposal considered in the city since 2020, a six-story apartment building that redevelops part of the Vista Del Lago apartment community on Marguerite Parkway.
—Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
Erecting an apartment building typically requires a long and unpredictable rezoning process as a result.
—M. Nolan Gray, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment building
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Completed in 1910, the 15-story apartment house includes a doorman, live-in superintendent, and rooftop terrace.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
8 Dec. 2025
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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
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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
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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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