duplexes
- plural of duplex.
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
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
They mostly invested in real estate — two commercial buildings and two residential duplexes.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025
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
She wanted to show us the other side of Marguerite Cartwright Avenue, where the seasoned professors lived, with the duplexes hemmed in by gravely driveways.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
