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canopy

[kan-uh-pee] / ˈkæn ə pi /


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From Virginia to north Florida and west to Texas, tens of millions of denuded acres were planted with rows of pine, restoring the region’s canopy and creating a new asset class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In other footage, the Israeli forces appear to have confiscated the canopy under which the settlers were sheltering, while leaving their other equipment.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

“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

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

It’s tiny, but the pastel wallpaper, canopy bed, and twinkly lights make it the prettiest room in the house.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

There has long been a divide between locals and out-of-town visitors over the giant canopies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

The canopies of cherry trees drift overhead, pregnant with blossoms.

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

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

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

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

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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