McMansion

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Recent Examples of McMansion Ainsley moves into the McMansion that Tommy shares with two other fifty-ish oil guys. Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025 Since the 1960s, FAIR has gone from honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to protecting McMansions. Stephen Mihm, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2025 The house was mercifully razed by the new owners, but its eventual replacement was yet another McMansion that filled nearly every square foot of the property — the sort of construction that changed the community character for the worse over the years. James R. Riffel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025 The premise was simple: R&T sent Kate Wagner—who cycling fans may know from her newsletter Derailleur, and others might know from her blog McMansion Hell—on a press junket to a Formula 1 race in Austin, Texas. Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for McMansion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for McMansion
Noun
  • Three other protesters — Jennifer and Finley Hanson and Cameron Bone — were also arrested at the mansion protest.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2026
  • South Florida’s high-end real estate market is making headlines, including an NBA star’s mansion listing to record-setting office rents.
    Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • Instead, it’s grounded in the book series and its first season adapts 1935’s Little House on the Prairie, which follows the Ingalls’ journey to start a homestead just outside the town of Independence, Kan.
    Sabienna Bowman, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • On Sundays, Kenyon opens the gates of his homestead to kids from Cherbourg, and anyone else who wants to ride bulls.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Noun
  • All eyes are on Taylor Swift and her Rhode Island manse as the pop superstar gets ready to wed Travis Kelce.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 June 2026
  • Attempts to find a buyer for the manse failed in 2009, when the in-demand player transferred to Spanish team Real Madrid; it was instead rented out, most notably to Man U player Luke Shaw in 2014 for $11,500 a month.
    Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • For a honeymoon, Ireland offers everything from castle estates and countryside manors to dramatic coastlines and quiet villages.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Madonna never set out to become a classic British lady of the manor, however, until fate intervened when she was introduced to Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton's suave biographer, through a mutual friend in 1998.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 July 2026
Noun
  • Inter Miami president and co-owner David Beckham owns an $80 million waterfront estate on North Bay Road in Miami Beach.
    Catherine Odom July 10, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
  • But many of those discs eventually found their way into secondhand shops and estate sales where private collectors scooped them up for safekeeping.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • Much of the album was recorded in the villa’s dungeonlike basement.
    René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026
  • George and Amal Clooney own a villa there, while stars including Beyoncé and Jay-Z, David and Victoria Beckham, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lopez have all vacationed along its shores, drawn by the luxury estates and private boat access.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Noun
  • In 1984, Baker married Emmy Award-winning lyricist and singer-songwriter Dory Previn, and the two eventually left Los Angeles to settle into an old farmhouse in Southfield, Massachusetts, the Berkshires.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 July 2026
  • Schallau’s specialty is saison, a style of farmhouse ales bursting with complex flavors, such as Bourgeois Daydreams, a pale golden table beer featuring notes of makrut lime leaves and Meyer lemon.
    Midwest Living, Midwest Living, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • The hotel’s penthouse-type accommodation is the castle-facing Patina Suite, equipped with its own turntable and sound system plus a minimalist Japanese-style meditation room.
    Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • The score drips with a sinister ostinato as the rats scurry into every corner of her castle.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 July 2026

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“McMansion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/McMansion. Accessed 12 Jul. 2026.

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