apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building The victim’s body was discovered on top of the six-story apartment building on Avenue H near New York Ave. Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026 The strikes damaged an apartment building in Rivne and an agricultural college in Ladyzhyn. David Brennan, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2026 Israeli strikes on an apartment building in Gaza City and a tent camp in Khan Younis have killed at least 30 Palestinians, including several children. Sam Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026 The business daily Kommersant said the attacker, posing as a delivery person, shot the general twice in the stairway of his apartment building, wounding him in the foot and the arm. Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 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 14 Feb. 2026.

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