attics

plural of attic
as in lofts
a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building rented the attic out to a college student

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Recent Examples of attics But sometimes these beneficial little mammals end up roosting inside our attics, barns, sheds, or other structures. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 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 Place them generously along walls, under furniture, behind toilets, in closets, crawl spaces, garages, attics, and near vents and light fixtures. Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 2 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 Want to shoot some PepperBall into vehicles or basements or crawl spaces or attics? Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 20 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
  • 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
  • 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 30 Oct. 2025.

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