APARTMENT HOUSE Synonyms: 34 Similar Words

apartment house

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as in apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment house 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 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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The victim, whose name and age have not been released, was assaulted in a communal bathroom of an apartment building in the 1900 block of Pico Boulevard, police and news accounts said.

— Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026
The Rendezvous is at the very (dead) end of Page Mill Road, on the ground floor of an apartment building.

— Laura Ness, Mercury News, 26 July 2026

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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

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