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Recent Examples of attic
Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Fire investigators believe the blaze began on an outside wall of the home, before spreading up the wall and into the attic.
—Briauna Brown, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Projects such as additions, finished attics, basements and other substantial improvements have resulted in measurable increases in assessed value.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
The couple has yet to renovate the house’s third floor, which includes Vincent’s office and the attic.
—Celia Fernandez
tasia Jensen, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
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Noun
From attics filled with secrets and dragon war colleges to the jungles of Vietnam and the beaches of Newport, audiobooks can transport listeners to some unforgettable places.
—Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Fire investigators believe the blaze began on an outside wall of the home, before spreading up the wall and into the attic.
—Briauna Brown, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Projects such as additions, finished attics, basements and other substantial improvements have resulted in measurable increases in assessed value.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
The couple has yet to renovate the house’s third floor, which includes Vincent’s office and the attic.
—Celia Fernandez
tasia Jensen, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attic
Noun
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The rooms There are three options—studio suite, two-bedroom suite, and sky loft with an upstairs bedroom—each with minimalist-modern decor.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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The lofts themselves will be aimed at affordability for those making below 80% of the area median income, which for a family of two in the Kansas City area is $71,300, according to federal housing documents.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
19 Feb. 2026
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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The cast features nonprofessional actors drawn from the area; their declamatory style of performance, along with Mateus’s hieratic images, endow the movie’s dramatic realism with the power of myth. 19.—
JUSTIN CHANG,
New Yorker,
5 Dec. 2025
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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
Adjective
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For the floral fans among us who don’t actually love the smell of roses and tulips (hi, that’s me), Cowgirl Grass offers a refreshing, slightly sweet alternative to cloying flowery scents.—
Irene Richardson,
InStyle,
22 Feb. 2026
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The duet is unabashedly sappy, its lyrics full of period-perfect, flowery Medieval revivalism tropes.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Jackson resigned and formed his own organization, PUSH – which originally stood for People United to Save Humanity before being amended to the less grandiose People United to Serve Humanity.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
17 Feb. 2026
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In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Williams draws us into the characters' magical realm with a playful yet slightly sinister music box theme that soon expands out into a grandiose series of orchestral broomstick swoops, setting the stage for the mega-successful series to come.—
Alex Galbraith,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The worm cytoplasm, measurements showed, was around 50 times more crowded with ribosomes than that of Holt’s cultured cells.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Feb. 2026
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Why Cultured Butter Makes Better Buttered Pasta Unlike American-style butter, which is typically made with sweet cream for a mild, somewhat neutral flavor profile, cultured butter is created from cream that's been fermented before churning.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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There’s folks that tend to be more florid and folks that are more Hemingway-esque.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
24 Dec. 2025
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Neolithic art in Orkney tends to be angular and abstract—less florid than the spirals seen in Irish tombs.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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While the lengthy interviews with Yo are gentle and tasteful (including scenes of her in the nude), the movie’s editing in more impressionistic scenes takes on the same semi-abstract qualities as Fitch’s representations, which seem to live halfway between the material and the emotional.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2026
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While the rug’s a tasteful pick for any room, consider saving this heirloom-quality piece for an area with lower foot traffic, like a bedroom or office, to keep it in optimal condition for years to come.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attic. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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