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Noun
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The Mark Hotel, on Seventy-seventh Street and Madison, was a center of the hubbub, with a hundred and fifty-three rooms and suites booked out to various glam squads.—
Jane Bua,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026 -
The rooms Six elegant bedrooms have wonderful high ceilings and huge shuttered windows.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 May 2026
Noun
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By the eve of World War I, Opatija boasted 24 hotels, 36 boardinghouses, and 12 sanatoriums attended by 80 physicians.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
8 May 2026
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Behind Jovan, the posse breaks into boardinghouses, yanks a miner from behind a grocery counter, shoots another dead in his home.—
Masha Hamilton,
Longreads,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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One afternoon, the rooftop penthouses were being transformed into a temporary compound for Chopard, which buys out the entire top floor every year.—
Melinda Sheckells,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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In 2024 the Italian brand unveiled the creation of two luxury penthouses crowning the sculptural Jem Private Residences tower in Miami, which marks developer Naftali Group’s debut property in the city.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
12 May 2026
Noun
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No one wants to go back to the days of tenements and apartments with insufficient ventilation or light.—
Michael Schill,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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The novel begins with a deadly fire that destroys two tenements.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Some Republicans eye exit from Capitol Hill Greg Gianforte, the chair of the Republican Governors Association, is the man leading the GOP's crusade to occupy more state governors' mansions.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
18 May 2026
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In the video, Pratt tapped into Angelenos' frustration over the city's housing crisis while also calling out LA Mayor Karen Bass and mayoral candidate Nithya Raman for living in mansions.—
Nicole Comstock,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
Noun
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The biggest issue in the Democratic primary was the Atlantic Yards project, a multibillion-dollar real-estate-development plan that sought to put a basketball arena and thousands of new apartments in downtown Brooklyn.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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The first would convert the existing 58-room hotel at the corner of North First Street and East Rosemary Street to 58 apartments, planning files show.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
18 May 2026
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“Flophouses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouses. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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