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apartment

[uh-pahrt-muhnt] / əˈpɑrt mənt /


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The Beaudry apartment tower is a visible showpiece for downtown Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The group is also calling for dumpsters at all apartment buildings and businesses, as well as more reliable bulky-item pickup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

One son and a divorced daughter share his tiny one-room apartment, while his two other sons had to move elsewhere due to lack of space.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Muhannad al-Tamimi, whose house had been occupied by soldiers since the operation began, returned to a trashed apartment with furniture and clothing littering the floors, mattresses overturned and a child's bicycle broken.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

She comes to the door of the apartment to see me off, and I wave to her as I turn to go down the stairs.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

A free meal is not a reason to trust an investment adviser selling annuities, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, managed investment accounts, legal services, time-share apartments or wealth management.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

But after tenant advocates warned that rent-controlled apartments would be demolished and homeowners complained that density threatened historic neighborhoods, Bass restricted the locations eligible for the program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The government says suitable apartments were unavailable closer to Race Course.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

In Colorado Springs, Woodmen Valley Chapel, a roughly 10,000-member church, donated more than an acre to the nonprofit Greccio Housing, which built Sunrise at Shiloh Mesa, with 50 apartments for seniors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Hyacinth led her siblings out the first-floor exit into the main hallway of the brownstone, where the stairs rose to the other two apartments.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser


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