apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building Mendoza was part of a team of Navy SEALs who, one day in November 2006, were sent into an apartment building in Ramadi province, Iraq, on a treacherous surveillance mission. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Apr. 2025 Gary Police arrived at 1:40 p.m. March 30, 2023, to the 4400 block of Delaware Street, where a young man lay on the front steps of a small apartment building. Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025 Surveillance video captured at the scene shows Ater, Marchbanks and Pennington arriving at the parking lot of the apartment building in the same car, according to court documents. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2025 The report recommends shifting to denser housing, like apartment buildings, in areas that are less likely to flood. James Barron, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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Noun
  • Whatever the publishers’ intent, these reporters did cover serious news: strikes, presidential races, unsafe factory conditions, overcrowded tenement houses, the aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes.
    Susan Faludi, The New York Review of Books, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The chef’s table inside the kitchen proves the best seat in this 100-year-old tenement house.
    Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2024

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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20building. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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