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canopy

[kan-uh-pee] / ˈkæn ə pi /


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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

A canopy of candy-colored paper lanterns and twinkling lights hangs over a long dining table opposite the restaurant.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

It is naturally affected by lightning fires that spread rapidly through the canopy, making them difficult to control.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

Above, the amber canopy filtered sunlight into a winking glow, easing him into a sleepy daze.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

The leak was from GKN Aerospace facilities that makes canopies for F-35 fighter jets.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 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

On Eighth Avenue, the market carts were parked hub to hub along the curb, improvised canopies shading the withering fruits and vegetables.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

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 James Fenimore Cooper




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