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penthouse

[pent-haus] / ˈpɛntˌhaʊs /
NOUN
aerie
Synonyms
STRONG






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It enabled him to purchase the Old Vicarage at Grantchester near Cambridge, formerly the home of war poet, Rupert Brooke, as well as a penthouse in London.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

While this particular penthouse has its own dedicated parking spot, the building also offers valet parking.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

A property developer has been fined £1m after a window fell from a luxury riverside penthouse in south London and killed a coach driver.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

A private equity firm resides on the fifth floor; an A.I. firm takes up the penthouse property on eight.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

The two lived with their three young daughters in a penthouse.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

It now offers 53 loft-style homes and eight penthouses.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

“So you have venture investors talking about AI and then $50 million penthouses all in the same episode. We’ll see if people like it. I don’t know.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Attas has seen it all, from opulent penthouses to homes she describes in her new memoir, “Pets and the City,” as “so squalid I feared for my life just breathing in the air.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

The building now has 234 apartments, made up of studios, one and two-bed apartments, duplexes, and penthouses.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024

Crowded warehouses, swinging up straw-packed crates into projecting penthouses; steamers with red-stained funnels, open-mouthed tubes, gangways, staircase heads, dangling boats, were moored by bustling wharves.

From Escape, and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson




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