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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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They were at work when the quakes struck, causing high-rise apartment buildings, shopping centers and schools to crumple.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

He and four others were taken to a skybridge connecting two high-rise apartment complexes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 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

He was put straight to work building high-rise apartment blocks for more than 18 hours a day, he said.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2025

He doesn’t live in a broken-down high-rise apartment.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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