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Recent Examples of attics
Homeowners are advised to prepare their homes for winter by protecting pipes, insulating attics and servicing furnaces.
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Nov. 2025
Add screening to vents or repair holes in existing screens in attics or crawlspaces, and repair or replace screens on doors and windows that can give these pests easy access to your home.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
Many homes have pipes running in attics, basements and crawl spaces.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Common nesting sites include woodpiles, rock piles, under leaves, inside garages and sheds, basements, attics and cluttered areas like boxes or under furniture.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Uckotter’s eerie depictions of attics, slip dresses, and toys calls to mind the cinematic worlds created by David Lynch.
—Grace Byron, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Some of the images from Katrina have been indelible, too − of desperate people trapped for days on their roofs or in their attics to get above the floodwaters and of thousands taking chaotic refuge in the Superdome.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Did attics figure in O’Connor’s œuvre?
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Bats and rodents also sometimes nest in attics and other undisturbed areas.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2025
Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Nov. 2025
Add screening to vents or repair holes in existing screens in attics or crawlspaces, and repair or replace screens on doors and windows that can give these pests easy access to your home.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
Many homes have pipes running in attics, basements and crawl spaces.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Common nesting sites include woodpiles, rock piles, under leaves, inside garages and sheds, basements, attics and cluttered areas like boxes or under furniture.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Uckotter’s eerie depictions of attics, slip dresses, and toys calls to mind the cinematic worlds created by David Lynch.
—Grace Byron, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Some of the images from Katrina have been indelible, too − of desperate people trapped for days on their roofs or in their attics to get above the floodwaters and of thousands taking chaotic refuge in the Superdome.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Did attics figure in O’Connor’s œuvre?
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Bats and rodents also sometimes nest in attics and other undisturbed areas.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for attics
lofts
Noun
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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
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As the series progressed, Carter went on to construct a highly believable world of Roy, with a sequence of meticulously outfitted penthouses, lofts, vacation homes, and castles, as well as private jets, yachts, a corporate boardroom, and a TV newsroom.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Attics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attics. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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