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While Karla Bradley was upstairs preparing to give birth, her husband, a neurosurgeon, was downstairs in the operating room.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Later, the nightclub downstairs invites you to mingle with friends in one of the cozy round velvet booths or dance the night away to the DJ’s tunes.
—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
In my current home (with five children), there is one hall bathroom upstairs, plus a tiny powder room downstairs.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2025
It was revealed in the 2016 documentary The Witness that at least two people called the police for help, and a friend of Kitty's who lived in her building, Sophia Farrar, ran downstairs to the hallway and found Kitty in a pool of blood, barely conscious.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Later, the nightclub downstairs invites you to mingle with friends in one of the cozy round velvet booths or dance the night away to the DJ’s tunes.
—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
In my current home (with five children), there is one hall bathroom upstairs, plus a tiny powder room downstairs.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2025
It was revealed in the 2016 documentary The Witness that at least two people called the police for help, and a friend of Kitty's who lived in her building, Sophia Farrar, ran downstairs to the hallway and found Kitty in a pool of blood, barely conscious.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Downstairs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downstairs. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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