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apartment building

NOUN
building with many living units
Synonyms
STRONGEST
apartment block apartment complex apartment house apartments flats multi-dwelling unit tenement
STRONG
WEAK


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Videos shared by Ukrainian emergency services on Telegram showed rescue workers and civilians carrying a woman out of an apartment building on a stretcher, her body covered in dust.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

A landmarked downtown Los Angeles apartment building designed by famed Los Angeles architect John Parkinson is on the market as its owners face foreclosure.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

Another drone crashed into an apartment building in the Moscow region district of Zhukovsky, while drone debris sparked a fire at a shopping centre near the capital's suburbs, Moscow region governor Andrey Vorobyov said.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

“Being responsible for a house—especially for me, who grew up in an apartment building that had a maintenance person—you don’t realize how overwhelming it really is,” she shared.

From MarketWatch Jun. 4, 2026

Outside of Madge and Oma’s apartment building, I carefully take the earbuds out and put them into their special case in my other pocket.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari



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