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Recent Examples of lanai
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.
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Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
As a result of The Golden Girls' enduring pop-cultural omnipresence, for decades, new generations of viewers have continued to fall in love with the antics of Dorothy Zbornak, Rose Nylund, Blanche Devereaux and Sophia Petrillo, four over-50 ladies sharing a house (complete with a lanai) in Miami.
—Jeremy Helligar, PEOPLE, 4 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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Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
As a result of The Golden Girls' enduring pop-cultural omnipresence, for decades, new generations of viewers have continued to fall in love with the antics of Dorothy Zbornak, Rose Nylund, Blanche Devereaux and Sophia Petrillo, four over-50 ladies sharing a house (complete with a lanai) in Miami.
—Jeremy Helligar, PEOPLE, 4 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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Then there’s the scourge known as porch pirates.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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The night of the Eaton fire, Manning was drying ceremonial sage on her porch.—
Erica Zora Wrightson,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Lanai.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lanai. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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