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Recent Examples of Attic
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
Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 July 2025
Or at least, way more jazzed than usual about cleaning the attic.
—Wired, Wired News, 8 July 2025
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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
The fact that your attic is one of the hottest spots in your home should be reason enough to put off this decluttering job.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 July 2025
Or at least, way more jazzed than usual about cleaning the attic.
—Wired, Wired News, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Attic
Noun
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Two presidential-style loft suites have access to the rooftop pool.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
16 July 2025
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There are also two guest cabins, each with two bedrooms and lofts, plus a 2,548-square-foot lodge outfitted with a chef’s kitchen, gym, game room, and home office.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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But political speech in the nineteenth century, as testified to by any number of senatorial addresses, tended toward the oratorical and long-winded.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Not merely because of his superior oratorical pizazz but also his remarkable style.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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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
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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
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There’s something dark budding beneath the flowery surface of NBC‘s Grosse Pointe Garden Society.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
23 Feb. 2025
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Kitty Fairy With tiny wings and a flowery crown, Kitty Fairy lives in the Fairy Tail Garden.—
Alex Vance,
Parents,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This isn’t an instance of crony capitalism, but a tale about well-meaning administrations, of both parties, pursuing grandiose ambitions without the vision, competence, or funding to realize them.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
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The opposition eventually halted the grandiose project after one long runway was built.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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The Renaissance ideal suggests a fine and cultured society, with its crowds of gay ladies and gentlemen devoted to the pleasures and elegances of life—which excites my admiration, but not my sympathies.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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Unfortunately, because these cells are difficult to grow and support outside of the body, cultured hydroxyapatite tends to be quite expensive.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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Some statements were more florid than others, and some were more convincing.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2025
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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
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The tasteful side slits are really just icing on the cake.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
20 July 2025
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Despite all of these dips into the rock music songbook, all of the jams are unmistakably Men I Trust, synthesizing these ideas in tasteful ways to nudge their sound, not break it.—
William Earl,
Variety,
20 July 2025
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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Attic. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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