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noun

ˈa-tik

Definition of attic

as in loft

a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building rented the attic out to a college student

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adjective

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Noun

And at some point, you’re just locked in some attic getting a sludge transfusion from your apparently satanist mother in law? — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2026 While roof rats make their homes in trees, rafters, and attics, Norway rats look for lower ground, digging out interconnected systems of tunnels and nesting spaces. — Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 17 Oct. 2026

Adjective

Additionally, Hershiser’s Legends Attic memorabilia space in Claremont will move some of its stuff to a space located behind the home plate seats. — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 16 Mar. 2026 Declutter Your Basement, Attic, and Garage Mice are most likely to inhabit spaces that don’t get much foot traffic, such as the basement, attic, or garage. — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 7 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for attic

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Noun

Tiny Tect Tiny Houses Upstairs, the seating/steps provide access to a large multipurpose loft.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2026
The Moline is being renovated with retail space and more than 100 lofts.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of loft

Adjective

That wasn’t Newsom’s only oratorical slip-up, although the second one says more about the larger Democratic Party than anything else.

— Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026
With his height and his oratorical flourishes, Jackson was a charismatic figure who led protests in Greensboro.

— Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026

Definition of oratorical

Adjective

Indeed, the narrator is resigned to death—if not the declamatory death of her friend in the lecture hall, at least the fact of death happening elsewhere, on the global stage.

— Maya Binyam, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
These sound particularly good in Morgan’s mouth, with his non-actory, declamatory way of speaking.

— Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026

Definition of declamatory

Adjective

The MemoMind One’s summaries were particularly strange and vague, with awkward and nonsensically arranged concepts strung together with flowery horoscope-like language.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026
Her flowery dress was the brightest thing in our corner of the car.

— Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of flowery

Adjective

At the end of the day, and of his essay, Thiel’s grandiose language and project is shown to be a rather ordinary ideological one.

— David Gibson, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2026
The grandiose panic room where Kate and Hal are locked down after the shooting was filmed in the crypt of a church on the Upper West Side.

— Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of grandiose

Adjective

One day, someone came in from a meditation-retreat center in a state of florid psychosis.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
Mariachi, tequila, and the florid masculinity of charrería, Mexico's national equestrian sport, all originated in Jalisco, the state for which Guadalajara serves as capital.

— Michael Snyder, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2026

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