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apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building But eight families stayed in the six-story apartment building. — Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026 Five people were hospitalized and three dogs died after a fire in a Riverside apartment building on Thursday morning. — Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 Dramatic videos released Wednesday show the moment two Minneapolis officers were shot after racing to an upper floor of an apartment building in pursuit of a man who killed two people and wounded three others, including the mother of his child. — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026 The commission also will get to approve or deny the entire expansion, including the apartment building. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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  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
Noun
  • 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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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20building. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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