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Police say no one was injured by bullets shot into an apartment building in the 3300 block of 183rd Street about 2:40 a.m. Aug. 12 or by shots fired in the 2500 block of Locust Road about 3 ½ hours earlier.
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Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
More than 150 people were also wounded in the massive bombardment that saw a direct hit on a high-rise apartment building as residents slept.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
City dwellers in apartment buildings warranted only half a page in the booklet, with the suggestion to head to the basement and cooperate with other residents.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2025
The largest outbreak in New York City’s history happened in 2015, when outbreaks of legionella in multiple apartment buildings in the Bronx infected a total of 138 people, killing 16, according to a case study from the National Institutes of Health.
—Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
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Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
More than 150 people were also wounded in the massive bombardment that saw a direct hit on a high-rise apartment building as residents slept.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
City dwellers in apartment buildings warranted only half a page in the booklet, with the suggestion to head to the basement and cooperate with other residents.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2025
The largest outbreak in New York City’s history happened in 2015, when outbreaks of legionella in multiple apartment buildings in the Bronx infected a total of 138 people, killing 16, according to a case study from the National Institutes of Health.
—Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment building
tenement house
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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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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20building. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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