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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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Recent Examples of Attic
Noun
Fifty-three years after the first location debuted, a Marcia’s Attic Kids store is still operating in Englewood, N.J., and a Marcia’s Attic women’s store is run in Closter, N.J. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Mar. 2025 Second place went to Attic Antiques ‘N Things, whose window featured old-time Santas. Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Check all the places where carbon monoxide detectors should be; including bedrooms, the basements and attic. Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2025 All the while, Helen Mirren’s Cara Dutton, the family matriarch, is up in the attic with her rifle, giving cover. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for Attic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Attic
Noun
  • With its high ceilings and wide rooms, the former warehouse could be turned into a brewery or taproom, an indoor pickleball venue, car collector's haven, an office or upscale lofts, according to Beth Rose Real Estate and Auctions, which is listing the property for sale.
    Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
  • Her daughter and the other campers ran to the rec hall and piled onto a loft upstairs, waiting for the waters to recede until daylight.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 9 July 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
  • While the grandiose gestures may seem romantic and well-intentioned, love bombing is almost always followed by devaluation and criticism.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 10 July 2025
  • In Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, collective or cooperative land reforms—less grandiose and more grassroots than the Soviet or Chinese variants—brought substantive and lasting social change.
    Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Forage Kitchen menu offers bowls, salads, wraps, kombucha and more In their new 1,800-square-foot space, Forage Kitchen will offer a make-your-own bowl option to patrons, along with their power bowl, Thai bowl and a cultured cobb salad.
    Liliana Fannin, jsonline.com, 11 July 2025
  • Look for cultured cottage cheese to get an extra dose of probiotics.
    Philipp Wehsack, Vogue, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Some statements were more florid than others, and some were more convincing.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025
  • Auburn hair with florid countenance denotes the highest order of sentiment and intensity of feeling, purity of character, with the highest capacity for enjoyment of suffering.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Yang had designed his interiors to incorporate a tasteful mix of Western and Eastern décor: a wall covered in de Gournay wallpaper here, a Serge Mouille light fixture there, Joseon pottery and contemporary Korean art scattered throughout.
    Thessaly La Force, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2025
  • In line with past seasons, the latest collection of Bear episodes features a plethora of tasteful rock ‘n’ roll needle drops, courtesy of co-music supervisors Christopher Storer and Josh Senior, who also serve as the series’ showrunner and executive producer, respectively.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 2 July 2025

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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Attic. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.

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