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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flophouses
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The hotel’s 512 midcentury modern rooms have views of active runways.
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Officials said the three victims became trapped inside one of the motel rooms as the fire spread.
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By the eve of World War I, Opatija boasted 24 hotels, 36 boardinghouses, and 12 sanatoriums attended by 80 physicians.
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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.
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The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.
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The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.
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There’s also a collection of luxury residences and penthouses for longer stays, each, of course, with stunning floor-to-ceiling views of Grace Bay’s turquoise waters.
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Beginning with the purchase of two penthouses in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood, Swift eventually expanded with another apartment in the same building and the townhouse next door.
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No one wants to go back to the days of tenements and apartments with insufficient ventilation or light.
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The novel begins with a deadly fire that destroys two tenements.
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The ranch is home to two mansions with a gym and tennis court, as well as guest houses, and a tunnel leading to an underground shelter approximately the size of a basketball court, according to the outlet.
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Camouflaging with the seaside mansions and balikçi (fish restaurants) in the village-like Çengelköy neighborhood, in a calm bay on the Asian side, the 19th-century facade was originally an Ottoman distillery.
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Examples include Fashion Valley’s plans to replace the JCPenney store with 850 luxury apartments and the intent by The Valley, formerly known as Westfield Mission Valley East, to add multifamily residential units.
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The sloping roofs achieve this in a way that benefits both residents in their apartments and visitors in the streets.
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“Flophouses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouses. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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