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loft

[lawft, loft] / lɔft, lɒft /
NOUN
room on upper floor
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Co-founders and partners Lena Martin and Mandolin Burns graduated from CalArts, and in their search for a place to live, they found a loft in the Arts District where they could potentially perform.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

She commonly sees kitchens where infrequently used gadgets take up "prime real estate"; things which could be stored in drawers, cupboards or even the loft, if it's something really gathering dust.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

They picked up a 1,800-square-foot, two-bedroom loft in 2006 for $1.3 million.

From MarketWatch Jun. 8, 2026

The rocket is designed to loft Starlink satellites, deploy the futuristic AI satellite fleet the company wants to create, and underpins Chief Executive Elon Musk’s exploration dreams.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Grandma still slept at the coldest end of the loft, only now in her thick rabbit-fur blanket.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

The 20 satellites, dubbed “V3” devices by the company, are designed to handle much more data than the satellites SpaceX currently lofts to orbit using its Falcon 9 fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Following a COVID-induced hiatus, downtown’s renaissance, with banks converted into lofts and vibrant public spaces, is showing — once again — a new appetite for urban living.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2025

But fear not, Apex isn’t just hanging out in one of Griffin’s lofts, overseeing his nightly buffet of caviar and gold-leafed Pringles.

From Slate Dec. 13, 2024

Jones lofts her third delivery to the ropes, picking the short ball and striking with confidence for a one-bounce four at mid-wicket.

From BBC May 10, 2024

Counting houses, shops, stores, sail lofts, and one great ship after another, home again after their voyaging, content as cows waiting to be milked.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

“This meticulously restored Victorian delivers the ultimate Hamptons lifestyle: a luxuriously appointed main residence, a lofted studio, and resort-like grounds with a heated gunite pool.”

From MarketWatch Apr. 8, 2026

Mendes-Flohr persuasively reads these letters as the site where theology isn’t lofted above desire but tested within it.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

Ahmed lofted Mitchell Santner for another six from the final ball of the 19th over, leaving five to get from the last and England completed a fifth successive victory with three balls to spare.

From BBC Feb. 27, 2026

These will be seen from the lofted windows of adjacent Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s soon-to-open David Geffen Galleries, and once the upgrades are completed the two campuses are meant to complement each other.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2026

She lofted her hair out neatly behind her and let it spread against her back to catch the sun.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Touted for years by Musk as the key to taking humans to Mars, SpaceX is now looking to show that Starship can work, including by lofting the company’s own satellites into orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 2026

Oviedo gave away a poor second goal after 57 minutes, with Raphinha running on to an undercooked back-pass from David Costas and lofting the ball over Oviedo goalkeeper Aaron Escandell.

From Barron's Jan. 25, 2026

This, meaning Ohtani lofting a ball high toward the right-center field wall.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2024

Powerful monsoon winds, strengthened by a warming climate, are lofting unexpectedly large quantities of ozone-depleting substances high into the atmosphere over East Asia, new research shows.

From Science Daily Apr. 23, 2024

Archibald was on the floor of his bedroom one afternoon, picking up the fragments of his mirror—a friend had advised him to practise the Walter J. Travis lofting shot—when the telephone bell rang.

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)




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