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Recent Examples of garret
Instead, the second-wittiest joke of Coup de Chance is Alain seducing Fanny in his struggling-artist garret.
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
For centuries thereafter, the uppermost floors remained least desirable (think servants’ quarters and Parisian garrets) until the invention of the commercial passenger elevator in the 1850s.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
For all those years her room was part of the architecture and geography of my being: a small attic with a garret window, poorly lit, hot in the summer.
—Édouard Louis, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
At that time, the garret had little headspace and no bathroom.
—Curbed, 17 Jan. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
For centuries thereafter, the uppermost floors remained least desirable (think servants’ quarters and Parisian garrets) until the invention of the commercial passenger elevator in the 1850s.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
For all those years her room was part of the architecture and geography of my being: a small attic with a garret window, poorly lit, hot in the summer.
—Édouard Louis, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
At that time, the garret had little headspace and no bathroom.
—Curbed, 17 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for garret
Noun
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Yet there’s a relaxed comfort to dinner in the airy concrete-floored loft, starting with the Taiwanese sausage that arrives as an early bite, wedged into homemade brioche like a tiny hot dog and plucked up between two fingers.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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It’s designed to feel like a floating loft at sea, and, if built, will represent a completely new direction for Benetti.—
Katia Damborsky,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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The film begins, somewhat shockingly, with a suicide attempt, as drunk and miserable Cliff Cashin (co-writer Michael Strassner) tries to hang himself in his attic only to wind up flat on his ass.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Garret.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garret. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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