apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building Four people are dead and hundreds displaced after a fire at a multistory apartment building in Milwaukee Sunday morning sent residents jumping from their windows for safety. Susannah Cullinane, CNN Money, 11 May 2025 Oakland fire department crews extinguished a fire at an apartment building Saturday afternoon in Oakland. Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 10 May 2025 Police on Wednesday arrested a suspect on suspicion of murder in the February killing of a man at a northwest Fort Worth apartment building where the victim’s former girlfriend lived. Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2025 The ambush attack comes after a 25-year-old man was gunned down earlier in the day just before 1:30 p.m. outside his apartment building on Capitol Avenue. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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tenement house
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 4 Jun. 2025.

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