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Recent Examples of Attic
Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
The EAMTs often find kittens that were born or hidden in car engines or attics.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
When the storm made landfall, Green recalls being trapped in the attic and his brother kicking a hole into the roof and pulling up his mother and toddler granddaughters.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
The blaze also spread into the attic of the building, one of at least 16 multifamily buildings in the complex, increasing the level of damage.
—Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
When the levees broke, Jean was 15 years old and stuck with her family in her grandmother’s attic in New Orleans’ Gentilly district.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
The EAMTs often find kittens that were born or hidden in car engines or attics.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
When the storm made landfall, Green recalls being trapped in the attic and his brother kicking a hole into the roof and pulling up his mother and toddler granddaughters.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
The blaze also spread into the attic of the building, one of at least 16 multifamily buildings in the complex, increasing the level of damage.
—Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Attic
Noun
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That led to a dinner date, which soon redirected to Ansari’s Tribeca loft.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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Playful prints, vivid colors, and global finds bring personality to every type of home, from industrial lofts to beach retreats.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Dallas area was a hotbed of competitive debate, and, at first, the oratorical polish of Kuang’s teammates was intimidating.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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Chicago-based like the Jacksons — the play originated at the Steppenwolf Theater Company in that city — they, too, are headed by an oratorical pastor who, in his youth, worked closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Yet the power in these two performances isn’t supplemented by much texture in the stern, declamatory writing: There’s little sense of how this relationship functions, or once functioned, outside these particularly fraught scenes.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
9 Aug. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Some nomenclature gets a little more flowery.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Das maintains a nuanced view of his role as a comedian, rejecting grandiose notions about speaking truth to power.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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This was not a hoax, exactly; Baron makes a convincing case that Lowell believed passionately in his grandiose claims, and that many members of the public wanted to believe in them, at a time of disorienting change.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Then, after microbiologists cultured cells from aquifer sediments located 30 meters beneath the surface, the race was on to find microbes in more extreme, unexpected habitats.—
Laura Poppick,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The RCPatch was cultured in the lab until the heart cells began contracting, which occurred within about three days.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Aug. 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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The place is illuminated by skylights and furnished with tasteful vintage pieces.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Winocour is a tasteful stylist, employing Filip Leyman and Anna Von Hausswolff’s evocative score to further elevate her already plenty stirring pictures.—
Richard Lawson,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Attic. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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