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canopy

[kan-uh-pee] / ˈkæn ə pi /


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The plant in Garden Grove manufactures the canopy for the F-35 fighter jet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Near the summit they metamorphose into stone tree branches, interweaving like a forest canopy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Bosses said the scheme was designed to help England reach the target of 16.5% canopy and woodland cover by 2050.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Tiny fingers of daylight crept through the canopy of branches, and waves slapped hard against the rocks.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

Building sites, for example, must provide workers with suitable clothing such as jackets with built-in fans, as well as air-conditioned break rooms and canopies to ensure shade.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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

Backers say the safety impact of rows of canopies is a real issue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

Sometimes Stella tells stories of her childhood, of leafy canopies hidden by mist and the busy songs of flowing water.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

To kill some time before cocktail hour, I visited the free Richelieu Library, where I joined other tourists peering into the Labrouste Room, canopied with a Byzantine-inspired nine-dome ceiling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Parts of Altadena now resemble a rural town, with scattered houses separated by vast swaths of open space canopied by trees that somehow survived the fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026

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

The boat was equipped with a canopied life raft that floated free and inflated.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2023

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

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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 James Fenimore Cooper

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




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