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Recent Examples of attic
Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
The pandemic was good for eBay’s business for a time as more people stuck at home supplemented their income by selling items from their attics.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 4 May 2026
Block entry to voids or attics.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
Besides holding the other candidates hostage in his attic until after the election, there’s probably nothing that could help him.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
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Noun
The Miami Lakes drug case that the film fictionalizes involved approximately $20 million being seized after the cash was discovered inside a residential attic.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
The pandemic was good for eBay’s business for a time as more people stuck at home supplemented their income by selling items from their attics.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 4 May 2026
Block entry to voids or attics.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
Besides holding the other candidates hostage in his attic until after the election, there’s probably nothing that could help him.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attic
Noun
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Each of the casita units are two-story, 500 square-foot loft-style units with a kitchenette.—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 May 2026
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Choose from properties like a spacious post-and-beam loft at Brithaven Farm or an oceanfront beach house with room for the whole family.—
Anna Laird Barto,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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That wasn’t Newsom’s only oratorical slip-up, although the second one says more about the larger Democratic Party than anything else.—
Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026
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With his height and his oratorical flourishes, Jackson was a charismatic figure who led protests in Greensboro.—
Johanna Neuman,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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These sound particularly good in Morgan’s mouth, with his non-actory, declamatory way of speaking.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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The cast features nonprofessional actors drawn from the area; their declamatory style of performance, along with Mateus’s hieratic images, endow the movie’s dramatic realism with the power of myth. 19.—
JUSTIN CHANG,
New Yorker,
5 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Her daughter is in a custom Dior pink flowery gown.—
Dalila Muata,
NBC news,
5 May 2026
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With all of the film’s complicated theoretical physics and flowery musings about the power of love and time, going melodramatic could push the film into eyeroll territory.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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The Mario series was maturing alongside the greater video-game landscape, but its childlike essence remained—not through docile cuteness, but through a more grandiose fusion of wonder, whimsy, and wistfulness.—
Billie Bugara,
Pitchfork,
9 May 2026
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Victory Day is one of the most important national holidays in modern Russia, featuring a grandiose parade to celebrate and commemorate its defeat of Hitler’s Wehrmacht in 1945.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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Build out your pearl collection with the cultured finds below.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
18 May 2026
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Once the roads open and the Miura’s tachometer sweeps past 4,000 rpm, your ears are nourished by a cultured snarl that builds to a hammering roar.—
Tim Pitt,
Robb Report,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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And while much of what is now published in the country with the regime’s approval is indeed florid propaganda, outside of Russia the grand tradition of Russian literature is very much alive.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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The song, which Diamond wrote with Alan and Marilyn Bergman, laments the cooling of a romance in language as direct as the music is florid; the recording, as the story goes, came in response to a homemade edit by a radio programmer eager to hear the two stars sing together.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
Adjective
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Wearing a tasteful, monk-like robe in muted camel, Grogu was ceremoniously carried to a waiting bank of red carpet photographers.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
16 May 2026
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Promote Without Preaching One tasteful way to navigate difficult moments is to focus on action instead of opinion.—
Claire Bahn,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attic. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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