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apartment building

NOUN

building with many living units

Synonyms

STRONGEST

apartment block apartment complex apartment house apartments flats multi-dwelling unit tenement

STRONG

co-op condo condominium

WEAK

flat house high-rise apartment residential complex tower block

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apartment building

Kolster, who lives on the seventh floor of an apartment building in Los Palos Grandes, added: "It was so strong that I thought the building was going to fall on top of me."

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

The couple met while living in an apartment building filled with other journeymen actors in the late 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Another drone crashed into an apartment building in the Moscow region district of Zhukovsky, while drone debris sparked a fire at a shopping centre near the capital's suburbs, Moscow region governor Andrey Vorobyov said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Citadel acknowledges that its CEO was Miami’s “mystery” condo buyer, paving the way to develop a new apartment building in the financial district.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

My father put a hand to my chest, and we flattened ourselves against the wall in the shadow of an apartment building.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz