apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building In more of a symbolic blow due to the fact there were no casualties, a drone hit a high-rise apartment building in an upscale neighborhood of western central Moscow on Monday. Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 8 May 2026 The city is currently considering a proposal from a local developer to turn a long-vacant downtown property at Illinois Street and Route 31 into a 12-unit apartment building with a parking garage. Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 May 2026 Gaudi’s monumental La Pedrera apartment building is less than five minutes’ walk away, as is Barcelona’s leafy shopping avenue, Passeig de Gracia, with its designer boutiques and Gaudí’s Casa Battló. Eddi Fiegel, Robb Report, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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Noun
  • Completed in 1910, the 15-story apartment house includes a doorman, live-in superintendent, and rooftop terrace.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 19 May. 2026.

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