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Recent Examples of attic
Juan Fernandez, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Netflix 'The Life of Chuck' Based on the Stephen King novella, director Mike Flanagan's supremely joyous character study – the best movie of 2025 – involves an apocalypse, multiple dance extravaganzas and a haunted attic.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2026
Also, what’s up with Millie’s room in the attic, which features a window that won’t open, a door that locks from the outside, and a serious Jane Eyre-meets-Gaslight vibe?
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2025
Seasonal decorations Seasonal decorations, like holiday lights, wreaths, and festive knick-knacks are best stored in the attic or basement rather than your bedroom closet.
—Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2025
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Noun
The gable vent is one of several that can draw embers into your attic if one flies in.
—Juan Fernandez, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Netflix 'The Life of Chuck' Based on the Stephen King novella, director Mike Flanagan's supremely joyous character study – the best movie of 2025 – involves an apocalypse, multiple dance extravaganzas and a haunted attic.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2026
Also, what’s up with Millie’s room in the attic, which features a window that won’t open, a door that locks from the outside, and a serious Jane Eyre-meets-Gaslight vibe?
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2025
Seasonal decorations Seasonal decorations, like holiday lights, wreaths, and festive knick-knacks are best stored in the attic or basement rather than your bedroom closet.
—Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attic
Noun
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As mentioned, the tiny house has a secondary loft area.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Jan. 2026
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These come in standard and high loft.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
7 Jan. 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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Claretta Surratt, 49, from Lancaster, watched the flowery extravaganza from beneath a black Juicy Couture umbrella and was bundled in a quilted jacket.—
Itzel Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2026
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Cut the fluff, the warm-up, the flowery exposition.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
19 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The Minneapolis steakhouse channels that grandiose 1940s architecture in its design, dreamed up by Wilson Ishihara.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
30 Dec. 2025
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Coin studied and transformed the grandiose palazzo designs into wearable works of art.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
10 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Human adipose tissue is processed into small pellets and cultured in suspension, allowing cells to reorganize and differentiate without extensive manipulation.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Jan. 2026
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The daughter of an engineer, she was raised in a cultured bourgeois household in the affluent 16th arrondissement and studied ballet at the Conservatoire de Paris.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Dec. 2025
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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Another exclusive cashmere find at Amazon, this Suuksess Polo Sweater takes the silhouette of a classic winter sweater and turns it into a statement piece, featuring ribbed detailing, a tasteful V-neck, cuffed sleeves, and a collared neckline.—
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Dec. 2025
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But what really livened up the outfit was a tasteful amount of power clashing.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
9 Dec. 2025
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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attic. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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