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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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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
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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
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Look for cultured cottage cheese to get an extra dose of probiotics.—
Philipp Wehsack,
Vogue,
11 July 2025
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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
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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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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The tasteful side slits are really just icing on the cake.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
20 July 2025
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“Attic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Attic. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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