apartment
noun
Jonathan Petre
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Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2024
Edith, the girl who wrote about her graduation banquet, told me that her parents were selling their downtown apartment and moving to the suburbs in order to pay her tuition at Pittsburgh—more than forty thousand dollars a year.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Further, the apartment boom in San Diego may be on the wane.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
Many public officials and service providers argue the SROs have outlived their usefulness, and want to demolish and replace them with apartments that have private facilities for every tenant.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Housing experts generally concur on the solution: Increase the density of neighborhoods, adding apartments at rates subsidized by tax credits.
—Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
Most farmworker families pay less than $400 per month to live in the apartments.
—Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
Photo : Lunghi Studios Terraces ring the 10th-floor apartment.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
Rebuilding the trust’s portfolio alone could cost nearly a half-billion dollars, displace, at least temporarily, hundreds of tenants and result only in a slight addition to the apartments available for homeless residents, according to city estimates.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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Word History
French appartement, from Italian appartamento
circa 1645, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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