duplex
noun
duplexes
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pluralof duplex.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Housing reforms that increase supply, such as allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, permitting duplexes, townhomes, and backyard cottages on existing lots, and changing zoning laws to allow housing nearer to jobs, are land-use issues.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The measure defines a big institutional investor as an entity that controls 350 homes or more, and its definition of a single-family home includes duplexes along with traditional detached houses.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
On the housing front, rows of affordable duplexes are sprouting up for young families, retirees and empty-nesters next to single-family homes and farmland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
As duplexes, the buildings were permitted in neighborhoods of low-slung bungalows—but exempt from size limits that governed only single-family homes.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2025
Others were big two-story duplexes, built as boardinghouses for bachelor miners in the booming 1920’s and later sectioned off as individual family dwellings during the Depression.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
