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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

When he saw what had become of their apartment building, he feared the worst.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Blanca Vanburian, who was doing a variation of Tai Chi on the lawn outside her apartment building, had several good questions, including one about whether the city could be trusted to maintain a new park.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 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

He pushed through the doors and sprinted across the empty parking lot and didn’t stop until he saw the lights from his apartment building.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss



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