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

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Attic

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adjective

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Noun
If possible, avoid storing paper items in damp spaces like boxes, attics, or basements. Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2025 In May of 2023, about two dozen small paintings were discovered in a box in the attic of a two-hundred-year-old clapboard mansion in Milledgeville, Georgia, where the writer Flannery O’Connor lived between the ages of eight and twenty-one. Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Doctor Found Fatally Shot in Attic Concerned About Living Alone in Detroit Mansion: ‘Be Careful,’ Said Neighbor Worthy also said that Hoover's white Range Rover, which was found with blood inside and blocking his driveway the day before his body was discovered, was allegedly linked to Burks. Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2024 The dress was designed by Attic Koncept and channeled royal energy. Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 12 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for attic
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Noun
  • This gorgeous villa is ideal for entertaining, with 221 square meters of living space that includes three bedrooms, a loft, and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom casita.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Two bedrooms are on opposite sides of the loft, one near the entrance and a slightly larger one with an adjoining bathroom and laundry room just off the living room.
    Roxana Popescu, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Not merely because of his superior oratorical pizazz but also his remarkable style.
    Julian Randall, Essence, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Chicago-based like the Jacksons — the play originated at the Steppenwolf Theater Company in that city — they, too, are headed by an oratorical pastor who, in his youth, worked closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The music is stark, declamatory, and ironic in its use of gentler major-key harmonies for some of the darkest lines.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood.
    Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • There’s something dark budding beneath the flowery surface of NBC‘s Grosse Pointe Garden Society.
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Kitty Fairy With tiny wings and a flowery crown, Kitty Fairy lives in the Fairy Tail Garden.
    Alex Vance, Parents, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Nithyananda was also grandiose, linking himself to long religious and royal lineages.
    Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Incorporate grandiose accents like opulent chandeliers, old-world upholstery, and ornate picture frames.
    Isabella Milano, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Young says the higher butterfat content of cultured butter yields flakier pastries and creamier sauces.
    Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Turgenev, Conrad and James found something captivating about political revolutionaries who were also well educated, cultured and sensitive.
    Max Chapnick, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Set against the tumultuous cultural backdrop of Brazil, the album’s florid, psychedelic soul chronicles the relationship between a darker-skinned Black man and a lighter-skinned Black woman.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 16 Apr. 2025
  • In its first two episodes, The Studio doesn’t (yet) have the ear for florid profanity that Veep did.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Middle Colenso Farm is a series of old stone farm buildings, updated with tasteful interiors and sculpted gravel paths through beautiful lush subtropical vegetation.
    Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
  • It was recently renovated and features tasteful interior finishes and furniture.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attic. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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