canopy
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“Thick tree cover made it difficult for the helicopter crew to see through the canopy, adding another challenge to locating the victim,” officials stated in a post on Facebook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Hosts arrive early and arrange roughly 10 folding chairs in a loose circle, then pop up a blue canopy tent that can be spotted from 50 feet away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In an old-growth forest with a dense, multi-layered canopy, visual estimates can be highly misleading.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
"We will be working collaboratively with public sector bodies to better understand the contribution they can make to increasing canopy cover in Wales," they added.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
The gentle breeze still managed to find him under the tree’s canopy, and the air blew his hair almost playfully.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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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
Summertime problems in Newport often extend far beyond the reach of beach canopies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
She invented “rest time,” a period of endless inactivity stretching out after school and lunch, in which we were ordered to stay in our beds, under our mosquito-net canopies.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The city seal is a tree and residents say the canopied streets are major contributors to the quality of life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
First-time feature director Rachael Abigail Holder’s cinematic postcard to loss and mutability is an attractive tableau of aged brownstones and new hot spots, canopied streets and hilly parks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
The white canopied walk-bike bridge at Redmond Technology Station features small gardens, while the neighboring Overlake Village walk-bike bridge portrays forests in a pixelated green mural.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
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
Crouched in her little canopied compartment in the back of the aircraft, Tonya could see in all directions, and there she was responsible for two machine guns that would protect her crewmates from enemy aircraft.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
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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