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attic

noun as in space under the roof of a house

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On Tuesday, acting on “new investigative information,” officers returned to the home on 14th Street and did a more thorough search, discovering the hidden entry to the attic, police said.

Mr Ford said he was working closely with the families of the original characters and said it was like "getting your favourite cuddly toy out of the attic".

From BBC

“And you tell me that some 82-year-old is going to get up in the attic with a hazmat suit on, rip out the insulation and start vacuuming around?”

In the sixth episode she admits she hasn’t been up to her house’s attic since she found her own son hanging up there.

From Salon

Forty years later, he came across them while cleaning out his attic; among the wares was an old football helmet.

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