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Recent Examples of Attic
Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Mar. 2025
Second place went to Attic Antiques ‘N Things, whose window featured old-time Santas.
—Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025
Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
Others fled to attics inside their homes, praying the water wouldn’t reach them.
—Brit Morse, Fortune, 7 July 2025
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Noun
Fifty-three years after the first location debuted, a Marcia’s Attic Kids store is still operating in Englewood, N.J., and a Marcia’s Attic women’s store is run in Closter, N.J.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Mar. 2025
Second place went to Attic Antiques ‘N Things, whose window featured old-time Santas.
—Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Other home hardening renovations for homeowners to consider include replacing windows with dual-pane glazing, and retrofitting attic and sub-floor vents with flame and ember-resistant vents.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
Others fled to attics inside their homes, praying the water wouldn’t reach them.
—Brit Morse, Fortune, 7 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Attic
Noun
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Latham is a fan of brass or iron options from Visual Comfort & Co. Industrial bedrooms draw inspiration from converted urban lofts characterized by exposed textures, deep wall colors, and thoughtful layers that keep them comfortable, not stark.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
2 July 2025
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Additionally, a secondary loft is situated above the entrance.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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But political speech in the nineteenth century, as testified to by any number of senatorial addresses, tended toward the oratorical and long-winded.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Not merely because of his superior oratorical pizazz but also his remarkable style.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The music is stark, declamatory, and ironic in its use of gentler major-key harmonies for some of the darkest lines.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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There’s something dark budding beneath the flowery surface of NBC‘s Grosse Pointe Garden Society.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
23 Feb. 2025
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Kitty Fairy With tiny wings and a flowery crown, Kitty Fairy lives in the Fairy Tail Garden.—
Alex Vance,
Parents,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Sitting on just shy of 3.5 acres, the grandiose 1920s home underwent a meticulous three-year renovation by architect Ira Grandberg but retains a charming, old-world feel.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
30 July 2025
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One was at the Tonga Room, the famed tiki bar hidden deep inside the Fairmont Hotel in Nob Hill, known for its grandiose decor and giant indoor pool.—
Daniel Bromfield,
Mercury News,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Ready to get cultured, but not sure where to start?—
Deborah Sengupta Stith,
Austin American Statesman,
31 July 2025
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Founder and creative director Salma Rachid has designed it for a cultured and cosmopolitan clientele.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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There’s no florid wallpaper and no nostalgic oil paintings.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
31 July 2025
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Under the agreement, which provides a conceptual framework for the redevelopment, Goddard would retain Burger King’s original buildings, designed in a florid post-Modern style typical of the 1980s by prominent national architectural firm Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum, today know as HOK.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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With hammered copper and a slick black finish, no one will guess that this tasteful decor cost less than $100.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 July 2025
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Each of the 98 guest rooms—including six lakefront chalets with fireplaces, private saunas, and terraces for lingering from coffee to cocktail—feels contemporary and tasteful, all warm hues and rounded edges with floor-to-ceiling windows and marble bathrooms.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
28 July 2025
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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Attic. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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