attic

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I spent hours with Dad in our garage grease pit bleeding brakes, in our attic installing insulation, in the furnace room adjusting burners.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Samuels was initially briefly placed in accommodation with strangers, which she found "weird and scary" before being moved to an attic studio above an old pub.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

The battered wooden trunk had been in the family for a century -- shifted from attic to barn to garage as it was handed down through the generations.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

Think Human festival committee member Gary Browning said the Iris Murdoch Society had recently found the previously unpublished poems in the attic of her house on 30 Charlbury Road.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

I feel one second of relief before I think what must be going on in the attic.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron