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canopy

[kan-uh-pee] / ˈkæn ə pi /


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The initial plans unveiled by Ratcliffe in March 2025 featured a huge canopy.

From BBC Aug. 1, 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

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

Bright Ghanaian cloth created a pretty canopy over her bed, and a glass container sat beside her table.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

The company said it has been in Garden Grove since 1966, and more than 500 employees work at the facility, which manufactures windows and canopies for aircraft and spacecraft.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2026

They towered overhead, arching together in vast canopies.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

By arborist Rebecca Latta’s estimate, thousands of trees in Altadena have been tagged for removal: oaks, pines, sycamores, deodar cedars — trees that have canopied the town for decades.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2025

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

Two plush sofas occupied the middle of the room, with a canopied bed in one corner and a mahogany dining table in the other.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

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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