apartment house

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment house
Noun
  • The doctor’s office was first floor of an apartment building on Rue d’Amsterdam.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • An elderly woman is dead after jumping from an apartment building that was on fire in New Haven on Monday night.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026
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

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“Apartment house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20house. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.

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