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The lanai — with hurricane-resistant glass — offers panoramic views.
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David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 22 Dec. 2025
Piña’s penthouse apartment spans almost the entire top floor and boasts many of the architectural touches that Fickett was known for, including an indoor-outdoor floor plan that connects to a lanai, vaulted ceilings, partial walls and lots of glass.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
The roughly 2,700-square-foot main house sits amid more than 4,000 macadamia trees, along with avocado, finger lime, apple banana, and tangerine groves, offering sweeping ocean and landscape views from a broad lanai.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2025
The resulting footprint is T-shaped, creating numerous pockets of outdoor space just begging to be built out with cushy outdoor seating, raised garden beds, an al fresco dining room, or your very own lanai.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025
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David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 22 Dec. 2025
Piña’s penthouse apartment spans almost the entire top floor and boasts many of the architectural touches that Fickett was known for, including an indoor-outdoor floor plan that connects to a lanai, vaulted ceilings, partial walls and lots of glass.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
The roughly 2,700-square-foot main house sits amid more than 4,000 macadamia trees, along with avocado, finger lime, apple banana, and tangerine groves, offering sweeping ocean and landscape views from a broad lanai.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2025
The resulting footprint is T-shaped, creating numerous pockets of outdoor space just begging to be built out with cushy outdoor seating, raised garden beds, an al fresco dining room, or your very own lanai.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lanai
porch
Noun
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Not a passive one staring at a monitor in another state, but an active presence — someone who notices the unlocked window, who hears the footstep on the porch, who understands that an elder’s sudden confusion might signal a urinary tract infection.—
Neal K. Shah,
Boston Herald,
17 Mar. 2026
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The two-story, 3,500-square foot home featured three bedrooms, two sun porches and a balcony.—
Camila Gomez,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2026
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