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apartment

[uh-pahrt-muhnt] / əˈpɑrt mənt /


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The ocean gives me somewhere to place thoughts that feel too large for my apartment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

To cover rent on a tiny apartment, Mr. Stallone took low-level jobs, including a gig as an usher at a movie theater, where he got a free education in cinematic story arcs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The plants, constructed in fortified bunkers and protected from drone attack by huge steel cages, are each capable of providing electricity and heat to several hundred of the city's high-rise apartment blocks.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

But many disused mills and factories have given way to apartment blocks, trendy cafes and co-working spaces.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

When Joey’s friends gather the belongings in her modest apartment, they discover a few record albums, many autographed theater and ballet posters, and nearly nine hundred books.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The giant property stocks, real-estate investment trusts that own hundreds of thousands of apartments and single-family homes across the country, have been plunging for months.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

People have paid for apartments that were never delivered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

She helped pass a new cap on rent hikes in apartments built before October 1978.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Last week, the Indonesian ombudsman's office said an inspection had uncovered a cluster of indulgently furnished apartments inhabited by inmates on the grounds of the Cibinong prison in Bogor, south of the capital.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

From houses with lawns to luxury apartments to small, ramshackle homes and Housing Authority apartments.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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