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Recent Examples of attics
Uckotter’s eerie depictions of attics, slip dresses, and toys calls to mind the cinematic worlds created by David Lynch.
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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
The EAMTs often find kittens that were born or hidden in car engines or attics.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
If given the opportunity, these bugs will squeeze into houses, attics and other structures looking for a place to shelter from the cold, says Bertone.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
Want to shoot some PepperBall into vehicles or basements or crawl spaces or attics?
—Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
One building has extensive charring on a staircase, and both units have severe damage to the attics, including holes that fire personnel cut in the course of extinguishing the fire.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Even retro gaming consoles and physical CDs are coming out of dusty attics.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
Did attics figure in O’Connor’s œuvre?
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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
The EAMTs often find kittens that were born or hidden in car engines or attics.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
If given the opportunity, these bugs will squeeze into houses, attics and other structures looking for a place to shelter from the cold, says Bertone.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
Want to shoot some PepperBall into vehicles or basements or crawl spaces or attics?
—Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
One building has extensive charring on a staircase, and both units have severe damage to the attics, including holes that fire personnel cut in the course of extinguishing the fire.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Even retro gaming consoles and physical CDs are coming out of dusty attics.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
Did attics figure in O’Connor’s œuvre?
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for attics
lofts
Noun
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From grand 19th-century apartments with soaring ceilings to former industrial lofts transformed into artistic havens, Paris’s Airbnb scene reflects the same blend of romance and reinvention that defines the city itself.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Architectural Digest,
11 Sep. 2025
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But then, nothing has been done to the property since Dubbeldam turned the more than 10,000-square-foot space into two apartments and two offices with two terraces in the mid-aughts (back when architects still had quaint notions of Tribeca lofts being live/work spaces).—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Attics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attics. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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