lofts 1 of 2

plural of loft
as in attics
a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building the cottage has two bedrooms on the ground floor and a second-floor loft that could be converted into a third one

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lofts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of loft

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Recent Examples of lofts
Noun
Rooms Faraway Sag Harbor has 67 guest rooms and suites, including a handful of lofts with double-height ceilings. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026 Along with a 10-room inn, there are two lofts available in Gagnon’s former workshop. — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026 The four-story hotel features 88 studios, 12 lofts and six suites, including a signature suite that spans 2,250 square feet. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2026 And the owners of one of Connecticut’s most popular shoreline lobster restaurants are fighting it, too, saying a series of four-story buildings with fifth-floor lofts would be too big. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026 Bowen shares the listing with his partner, Zia O’Hara, whose clients often house-hunt in brownstone Brooklyn while dreaming of the light and air of downtown lofts — the rare combination that 281 seems to hold. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026 Comella paid his fare at Canal Street — the driver would go no farther — and walked south on west Broadway, a thoroughfare of million-dollar lofts, to a point three blocks from the Trade Center. — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 As impressive as many space-saving tiny houses are, not everyone is cut out for climbing into small lofts using movable ladders, or sleeping on a sofa bed every night. — New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026 In February, residents of the lofts turned down an offer from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 124 in Kansas City, along with the National Electrical Contractors Association, to fix the sign for free, with one stipulation. — Rashad Alexander august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lofts
Noun
  • Ensure proper ventilation in basements, attics, and crawl spaces.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of shopping for décor, homeowners will increasingly shop their own closets, attics and family storage.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Simmons made some phenomenal throws all over the field, including to his primary receiver, Cayden Lee.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Chicago White Sox third baseman Miguel Vargas (20) throws to first base in the fifth inning of a game against the Cleveland Guardians at Rate Field on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • A student tosses a metal barrier during a protest at Strasbourg University in eastern France on Friday.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Love finished 16 of 29 for 145 yards with TD tosses to Christian Watson and MarShawn Lloyd for the Packers, whose six-game skid — including the playoffs — was their longest since dropping seven in a row spanning the 1990 and 1991 seasons.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Former Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins hurls a deep ball toward Jefferson in double coverage, and McCardell stops the play.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The mathematical problem concerns the Navier-Stokes equations, which govern the flow of fluids—from the whirlpool circling your bathtub’s drain to the turbulent winds El Niño hurls across the North American continent.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Surveillance footage of the incident shared by Palermo Today shows a number of passengers throwing punches, before one guest flings a chair at another.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Its highly specialized strategy likely evolved to take advantage of the ant’s natural aggression and then overcome its defenses; the slingshot mechanism flings the ant from the foraging trail, reducing the risk that the spider will be swarmed by other workers, the researchers hypothesized.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • Andrew Garfield stars as Altman, with Anora‘s Yura Borisov playing Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientific officer and co-founder of OpenAI who fires Altman.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Dennis Dooley, who was standing on the roadbed below, fires one shot, striking Bottom.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026

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“Lofts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lofts. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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