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as in penthouse
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house
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as in room
an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall
the museum sets aside this large central apartment to display special exhibitions
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Recent Examples of apartment
Most often, the chatter is to convert these properties into apartments or condos or undergo a significant renovation to appeal to new tenants.
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Rafi Golberstein, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Rod moved out of Morgan's home into his own apartment and Morgan was ready to move on.
—Michael Loftus, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2024
The couple had already downsized from a two-bedroom apartment to a one-bedroom unit to cut down on their housing expenses.
—Cheyenne Devon,zachary Green, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
The whole home, a modest apartment in a multistory building that can only be reached by the narrowest of streets, is decorated with photos of Rami.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Dec. 2024
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Rafi Golberstein, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Rod moved out of Morgan's home into his own apartment and Morgan was ready to move on.
—Michael Loftus, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2024
The couple had already downsized from a two-bedroom apartment to a one-bedroom unit to cut down on their housing expenses.
—Cheyenne Devon,zachary Green, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
The whole home, a modest apartment in a multistory building that can only be reached by the narrowest of streets, is decorated with photos of Rami.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Dec. 2024
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Downtown Dubai’s elegant penthouses, the lush green Dubai Hills neighbourhood, and Palm Jumeirah properties including Shoreline Apartments and Golden Mile are just a few examples.Arash Jalili, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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The tower’s largest option are its two-bedroom penthouses that can sleep up to eight.Carly Caramanna, Parents, 17 Dec. 2024
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When the facts become too painful, the room stands slack for a second and then carries on.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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The now empty rooms once held sprawling shoe closets, as well as Club Paris, the actor’s personal at-home nightclub.Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
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In so doing 308,000 square feet of new luxury condominiums and commercial space was created.Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Also, the bill set requirements for inspections of condominium buildings that are three stories or higher.Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
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Their primary bedroom, meant to evoke a luxurious hotel suite, is perhaps the most seductive space of all, enrobed in tones of silvery gray from the plush wall-to-wall carpet to the wall niche hand-gilded in silver leaf.Catherine Hong, Architectural Digest, 10 Dec. 2024
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Ultimately, the International Atomic Energy Agency referred the issue to the UN Security Council, resulting in an unprecedented suite of multinational economic sanctions on Iran.Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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Since Austen’s death in 1817, the cottage had been split into flats and fallen into disrepair, though Darnell was determined to save it.Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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Gabriel thought of his own mother, alone in her small flat.Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile Tateh and his daughter work their way through the tenements toward better lives, encountering the radical Emma Goldman (Shaina Taub, who’s come over from Suffs and reveals her own musical’s debt to Ragtime’s genre in the process) and eventually intersecting with everyone else.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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People were running toward my grandparents’ tenement.Al Pacino, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
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The Toronto Film Festival looks to be facing a likely search for a new home for press and industry film screenings after its long-term venue, Scotiabank Theatre Toronto, was sold off, with plans for a twin condo tower development to replace it in the works.Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
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But this condo situation in Utah highlights the expanding crisis.BYAlena Botros, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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