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high-rise apartment

NOUN
apartment building
Synonyms
STRONGEST
apartment block apartment complex apartment house apartments flats multi-dwelling unit tenement
STRONG
WEAK
flat house residential complex tower block


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Unverified social media videos showed plumes of smoke rising over Ryazan -- a city of around 500,000 -- and a high-rise apartment block with several blackened floors.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Following a round of particularly intense Russian barrages two years earlier, Biletsky had convinced his neighbours to chip in together to install solar panels and batteries on the roof of their high-rise apartment block.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Flournoy’s retirement system, for example, committed $30 million to a fund managed by real estate firm Waterton that in 2021 purchased the Vue high-rise apartment tower in San Pedro, according to CoStar.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024

Angela Jiang says she is much happier since she moved out of a high-rise apartment building.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2024

A new Ilium Government Center and a Pavilion of the Arts and a Peace Lagoon and high-rise apartment buildings were going up here soon.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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