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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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The loft suites at the Asbury Ocean Club have 11-foot ceilings and landscaped dune grass terraces or ocean-view balconies.—
Jen Murphy,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Aug. 2025
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For the spring 2024 show, Lauren constructed an artist’s loft in a barn at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, reminiscent of his Double RL Ranch.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
14 Aug. 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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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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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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There are signs in the rhetoric of both Trump and Putin of such grandiose imperial impulses.—
Ronald Suny,
The Conversation,
19 Aug. 2025
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That fight doesn’t require grandiose ideologies or MAGA slogans.—
Y. David Scharf,
New York Daily News,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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His mother was one of the most cultured people like ever in American social history.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
16 Aug. 2025
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Today’s buyers are in line with the financiers and cultured trust-funders the building has always preferred.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 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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Was its 21-episode stretch necessarily good, tasteful television?—
IndieWire Staff,
IndieWire,
16 Aug. 2025
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The Four-Star Atlantis Steakhouse got a tasteful makeover, too.—
DeMarco Williams,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Attic. Accessed 30 Aug. 2025.
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