duplex 1 of 2

as in dual
consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined a duplex apartment with all of the bedrooms on the second floor

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duplex

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noun

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Adjective
The duplex home of renowned art collector, dealer, interior designer and philanthropist Hester Diamond recently listed for $19.5 million. Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 18 May 2022 For the penthouses, Herzog and de Meuron worked alongside structural engineers AKT to create the unique features within each duplex penthouse and interior designer Tom Dixon’s Design Research Studio to create lovely homes. Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022
Noun
The data included sales of single-family homes as well as condominiums, duplexes and townhouses in Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia counties. James Wilkins, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025 Across Wolf Canyon, in the western half of Otay Ranch, is a project selling from Lennar called Anden that is entirely duplexes. Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for duplex
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplex
Adjective
  • In the 2018 original A Simple Favor, based on a novel by Darcey Bell, Lively had dual roles as Emily Nelson, whose real name is Hope McLendon, and her estranged sister Faith.
    Benjamin VanHoose, People.com, 3 May 2025
  • The vac has dual plush rolls for hard floors and brush rolls for carpet to work effectively at sucking up hair and debris on multiple types of floors.
    Nena Farrell, Wired News, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • The current layout includes a one-bedroom garden apartment (perfect for guests, nannies, or passive income) and a four-bedroom triplex above.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2025
  • But neither seem to be major real estate players, although Chen owns multiple properties, and Zhen seems to know a bargain, paying $920,000 in 2018 for 85th Street — a five-bedroom triplex that had been listed at $1.299 million.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The choice was binary when Judge came to the plate, Schneider said, pitch carefully or intentionally walk.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • However, this binary perspective oversimplifies a far more complex reality.
    Stephanie Creary, Harvard Business Review, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The neighborhood is home to Brooklyn’s largest public-housing complex, a Tesla dealership, the only IKEA in the five boroughs, and modern brutalist condos alongside weathered cottages, remnants of the nineteenth-century maritime trade.
    Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 9 May 2025
  • Brokers say that buyers, many of them from Manhattan, have been flooding the Brooklyn Heights–Boerum Hill–Cobble Hill–Carroll Gardens area, and a lot of them, unlike those in the market for condos and co-ops, are often willing to take on renovations.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Mars Is Electric is the California rapper’s follow-up to his twin 2023 releases Even God Has a Sense of Humor and Debbie’s Son.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 29 Apr. 2025
  • There’s an entire subset of digital twin specialists spanning IoT AI toolsets, including o9 Solutions, Bentley Systems, Siemens and General Electric.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Its homes, which can be customized by combining various-sized modules, range from one to four bedrooms and are solar-powered, built to maximize thermal efficiency and indoor air quality.
    Sam Lubell, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
  • Companies can achieve this level of efficiency and responsiveness within their supply chains.
    Viral Hirpara, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The development, which is on the main Sheikh Zayed Road, will offer three- and four-bedroom apartments and penthouses.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The penthouse Saigon Suite by Giorgetti is the most gallery-worthy of the hotel’s offerings for its fusion of Saigon's ambitious energy and Milan's longstanding design horsepower.
    Paul Jebara, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Another one of her rental listings, also a floor-through but configured as a three-bed, two-bath, rented to the first people who saw it.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 8 May 2025
  • Two floor-through units on the third and fourth floors sat above an owner’s duplex with bedrooms at the garden level and living spaces on the parlor floor.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Duplex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplex. Accessed 12 May. 2025.

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