railroad flat

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Recent Examples of railroad flat The apartment’s railroad flat configuration is a plus. Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 31 July 2024 Shelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley. Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022 Shortly after Howe was born, in 1940, her family moved from Buffalo to a railroad flat near Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for railroad flat
Noun
  • The layout is open and airy with plenty of windows and doors leading to a single interior room, like a studio apartment.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Back in 2003, Mr. Seeley, then 23 was living with his girlfriend in Park Slope and paying $1,000 a month for a first-floor, 400-square foot studio apartment.
    Alix Strauss, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Secret Life of Pets actor also wanted to include a window in his shower because his favorite garden apartment in Chicago had that feature.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • From $151 per night. BOOK NOW Pink Paradise in New Orleans, Louisiana This historic garden apartment—built in 1875— is a stunner on the inside and out.
    Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The duplex apartment measures roughly 9,200 square feet with five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Although she was born in Oakland, California, most of Harris’s early childhood was spent in a nondescript duplex apartment located above a day care facility in an area of West Berkeley known as the flatlands (her parents met as graduate students at UC Berkeley).
    Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2024
Noun
  • The firm has built 11 efficiency apartment buildings across the country.
    Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The inn also offers two efficiency apartments for longer-term stays.
    Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Catch up quick: Casitas are tiny homes behind larger houses that can be rented out or occupied by family (leading to their other names — in-law suites and granny flats).
    Megan Stringer, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
  • One potential reform is to expand access to accessory dwelling units, which includes granny flats, basement apartments, coach houses and other living spaces added to existing single-family lots.
    Micky Horstman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Artificial intelligence is transforming the underwriting landscape by dramatically increasing speed, accuracy and efficiency.
    Andrew Curtis, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • And for an administration that says it's focused on reducing waste and improving efficiency, that is unacceptable.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That’s little comfort for residents like Mark Polinsky, 72, who in January almost lost his condo near Fashion Valley to a possible encampment fire.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
  • From these vantage points, old and new Aspen converge in a panoramic sweep of mountains that have towered here for eons, rooftops of condos that sprang up in recent years, a swirl of tourists mingling with longtime locals.
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Three of the six spaces here were the upper floors of duplexes on the 12th floor.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Tiny House Listings has been busy of late, recently completing a duplex tiny house and an extra-wide apartment-like model too.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Railroad flat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad%20flat. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.

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