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canopy

[kan-uh-pee] / ˈkæn ə pi /


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In an old-growth forest with a dense, multi-layered canopy, visual estimates can be highly misleading.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

They admired the architecture and the infinity screen and the way the canopy kept things cool.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

During the hottest days, they set up a canopy umbrella over their stall to shield them from the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Aerial footage showed a stream of black SUVs pulling up to the venue with guests dropped off under a white canopy tent.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

There were hundreds of sparkling windows, some panes over a dozen feet in height and width, shining like mirrors in the sunlight as they rose above the canopy.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Their thick bark and elevated canopies offer protection, while smaller fires clear vegetation, recycle nutrients, and create conditions that help new sequoias grow.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

I saw canopies of Iraqi flags, bodies out every window, everyone dancing to a faint hip-hop pulse.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

They also used instruments that measured CO2 levels in tree canopies every hour and sensors attached to tree trunks that tracked tiny changes in trunk size throughout the day.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Tents, cabanas and canopies have been banned along stretches of the Jersey Shore for the last two years.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

At night, in her bed, she rides in the belly of Captain Nemo’s Nautilus, below the gales, while canopies of coral drift overhead.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Vimalakirti leans over the edge of his canopied bed with an impatient stare, as he argues that it is possible to enjoy earthly life while still abiding by Buddhist nonattachment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The result: a towering, canopied staging area built on the beach that took a week to erect and a week to take down.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 25, 2023

Surrounded by hundreds of police officers and supporters, they hunker down inside a canopied structure made of blue tarpaulin sheets that serves as a tent.

From BBC May 22, 2023

I want her world to be canopied by moonlight and the breathtaking Milky Way.

From Washington Post Feb. 1, 2023

The bed in which she lay was canopied in red velvet with golden accents.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Under the canopying smoke of London or Edinburgh, even amongst the beautiful fields of England or Scotland, there is nothing to be made of him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

The latter had become known at the Nest, solely by the circumstance that the object which had so lately canopied aristocracy in St. Andrew's, Ravensrest, was now canopying pigs up at the farm house.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore




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