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Recent Examples of Attic
Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2025
In Michigan, the Upper Peninsula recommendations are R60 for attics, R38 for non-insulated floors and R20 for walls.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Rubbermaid Cleverstore 95-Quart 4-Pack Storage Bins Don’t overlook (or forget about) the items stored away in the attic or garage.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
With their inky-black shadows and deathly pale skin, characters like Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice) and Nancy Downs (The Craft) were feared for having a macabre vibe, which led them to find camaraderie among ghosts in their attic or within the high school coven.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
In fact, the attic is even rumored to still hold Secret Service tape from one of Reagan’s inauguration celebrations held here.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2025
In Michigan, the Upper Peninsula recommendations are R60 for attics, R38 for non-insulated floors and R20 for walls.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Rubbermaid Cleverstore 95-Quart 4-Pack Storage Bins Don’t overlook (or forget about) the items stored away in the attic or garage.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
With their inky-black shadows and deathly pale skin, characters like Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice) and Nancy Downs (The Craft) were feared for having a macabre vibe, which led them to find camaraderie among ghosts in their attic or within the high school coven.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Attic
Noun
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This is an ideal pick for combination sleepers, who can adjust these pillows to suit their ideal loft depending on their needs.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
24 Oct. 2025
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The building would be surrounded on all four sides, sandwiched between the church and a ten-story MetroTech building, with the rowhouses in front and BellTel lofts in the back.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
20 Oct. 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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Nothing hangs on the pale yellow living room walls, the flowery ceiling molding overhead providing the only décor.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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Festival highlights include the giant mum arch and other flowery displays–perfect for photos–as well as the sheer variety of shopping from more than 300 vendors.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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One of the great pleasures of anime is that its unabashed, rollicky genre pieces are often suffused with grand, but not grandiose, sociopolitical commentary — a heady combination that many similar pictures can’t pull off.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Great Park idea was hatched two-plus decades ago amid grandiose promises.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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His goal to seal the win against Italy — a lung-busting run and cultured finish in the dying moments — helped to illustrate the impressive engine at the heart of Cremaschi’s game.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Because each cell type is cultured separately, they can be genetically edited to study specific diseases or therapeutic responses.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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McNamara’s screenplays are equally strange and enchanting, but also florid, absurd and randy.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
24 Oct. 2025
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Then there is the real thing touched on by such florid representation: the drive of some humans to inflict actual pain and death for no reason but the apparent compulsive enjoyment of it.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Fox’s costume is certainly clever — and on brand for Halloween — if not exactly tasteful.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Oct. 2025
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The tasteful trio will definitely become the most reached for bottles on their spice rack.—
Mark Marino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Attic. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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