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Six example sentences with duplex, each labelled with its topic.
The plan stacks a garage under each half of the duplex, so both front doors open onto the same short porch.
Architecture
Buying a duplex let them live on one side and cover most of the mortgage with rent from the other.
Finance
Our rental was half a duplex, and we could hear the family next door starting coffee every morning at six.
Travel
Allowing a duplex on every residential lot added thousands of homes to the city's supply within a decade.
Economics
The council's vote to permit a duplex in single family zones drew crowds to a hearing that ran past midnight.
Politics
The zoning code defines a duplex by its shared wall, so two houses joined only by a garage do not qualify.
Law
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