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as in penthouse
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house
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as in room
an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall
the museum sets aside this large central apartment to display special exhibitions
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Recent Examples of apartment
What are your living arrangements like: swanky apartment in the city, or suburban sprawling?
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 July 2025
Parker Benjamin’s application pledges to put aside four apartments for tenants earning no more than 80% of the region’s median income, and would target the other 12 to be affordable to people making 100% or less of the region’s median income.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2025
In an aerial view, apartments are seen undergoing construction downtown on March 19, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
Pets belonging to people who are deported or flee are being left in empty apartments, dumped into the laps of unprepared friends and dropped off at overcrowded shelters, The Times found.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 July 2025
Parker Benjamin’s application pledges to put aside four apartments for tenants earning no more than 80% of the region’s median income, and would target the other 12 to be affordable to people making 100% or less of the region’s median income.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2025
In an aerial view, apartments are seen undergoing construction downtown on March 19, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
Pets belonging to people who are deported or flee are being left in empty apartments, dumped into the laps of unprepared friends and dropped off at overcrowded shelters, The Times found.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment
Noun
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The guest rooms offer private balconies, while penthouse suites include up to three bedrooms and large private terraces.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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The three-bedroom Nashville penthouse is near the heart of Music Row.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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The trio of animals moved like molasses around the room, steadily scaling rocks and different obstacles to eat up every last shred of lettuce.—
Grace Tucker,
The Enquirer,
23 July 2025
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Wells’s great mind inhabited a small set of rooms in the six-story Tuckerman Building on Washington Square.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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The 53-year-old doctor, who owns Treasure Coast Eye Specialist in Stuart, owed her $285,000 and had to cede the Lake Worth Beach condominium to Sciarrone as part of the settlement, his arrest warrant detailed.—
Isabel Rivera,
Miami Herald,
22 July 2025
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The condominium was built in 1907 and has a living area of 715 square feet.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
20 July 2025
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The 12-acre campus features 1,500 feet of private white-sand beaches, luxurious rooms and suites, a full-service spa, marina, rooftop and oceanfront pools, and two restaurants.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
20 July 2025
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No classical performer is more mainstream than Yo-Yo Ma, but his successive recordings of the Bach cello suites have been strongly influenced by period-instrument practice in such matters as phrasing and the use of gut strings.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
20 July 2025
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Our current favorite pairs include a few riffs on those flats from The Row—but thanks to the recent creative renaissance around jellies, there are so many more options to discover.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
15 July 2025
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The actress accessorized with a wicker handbag and white pointed-toe flats.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
14 July 2025
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Eventually the town and local church leaders then converted the tenement into a museum and a Polish businessman bought the building and donated it to the church.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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Painted in a housing estate known as Osiedle A, one of the few remaining 1950s-style tenements, the glamour of Kiwior in a bright red Arsenal jersey is a symbol of how radically Poland’s living standards have improved in his lifetime.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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From the Miami Surfside condo collapse to the destructive fires in Maui and Los Angeles and countless floods and tornadoes, these days the steady drumbeat of disasters has been relentless, Hymel said.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
19 July 2025
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In Florida, the situation is even more volatile, not least because the local insurance crisis, exacerbated by the Surfside condo collapse and increasing climate risk, has led to eye-popping premiums.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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“Apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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