McMansion

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Recent Examples of McMansion Now, homes that are considered large are smaller than those of the McMansion years. — Mary Grace Granados special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026 Some already have the McMansion and use their RV as a workweek crash pad. — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025 Gindi appears to have unloaded his Beaux-Arts-ish McMansion in an off-market deal to Victor Hakim, the founder and CEO of the Choice Home Warranty firm, according to city records and PincusCo, which first reported the transaction. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2025 With these TikTok-ers, Warren co-founded the Hype House collective and moved together into a Los Angeles McMansion, the basis of which became an actual Netflix reality series of the same name in early 2022. — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for McMansion
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Noun
  • Mia Wasikowska plays a woman who moves to a remote mansion with her new husband (Tom Hiddleston) and his sister (Jessica Chastain) and discovers the secrets buried in the earth.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026
  • For some of the world’s richest people, buying a mansion is the first in a string of many purchases.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The series of three mailers read Grasso had claimed homestead exemptions — a property tax break reserved for a person’s primary residence — on both his Burr Ridge home and a Chicago condo, according to court records.
    — Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Moraitis backs Florida’s Amendment 3, the ballot measure that would increase the homestead exemption for all non-school taxes to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The manse was still under the ownership of the DeMille family when it was featured in AD in 1987.
    — Sydney Wingfield, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Think of the breezy Hamptons beach house in Something’s Gotta Give, the classic colonial in Father of the Bride, the dreamy Brooklyn brownstone in The Intern, the storybook English cottage and Mediterranean-modern San Marino manse in The Holiday.
    — Ingrid Schmidt, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The drama turns on a young woman, victim of spike drinking at a lavish New Year’s Eve party in a remote manor.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
  • In an Edwardian manor near Grosvenor Square—where sprawling shopping destinations Regents Street and New Bond Street are there for window gawking—the 31 rooms prove to be a welcome respite from city noise.
    — Katharine Sohn, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Khan, whose estate has not become an AI hub in the way that London’s King’s Cross district has, says there’s no sign yet that AI will empty Canary Wharf of its white-collar workers.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Some companies sell modest shells that buyers finish themselves; others engineer custom shelters into private estates, with independent power, water, air filtration, medical space and, at the highest end, elaborate amenities.
    — Megan Buerger, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • There are 63 villas (most with sea views, some with beach views, with either one or two bedrooms) and currently 14 private homes.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • But centering a nearly dead Cathy Ames (Florence Pugh) is Kazan’s entire intention with this project, and snagging us with the image of her bloody body crawling toward the Trasks’ farmhouse is a tip of the hand toward where East of Eden is going.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Say goodbye to matching furniture sets, gray color schemes, and overdone modern farmhouse staples.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • This castle is old—so old that an Anglo-Norman lord built it in 1180.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Moments later, MacKinney storms in, kills one of Colum’s guards, and orders his men to round up the castle’s women and sequester them in the chapel.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

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“McMansion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/McMansion. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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