shades

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Put your windows on lockdown: Close blinds, shades or curtains during peak daylight hours — especially on south- and west-facing walls — to block radiant heat from entering.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

“Having to close the shades just feels so depressing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

As Ruthye, Ridley’s crisp British elocution is the cleanest thing in the movie, which is shot by Rob Hardy in shades of mustard smog and latrine brown.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

At one Paris school on Tuesday, parents taped survival blankets to windows to lower the temperature inside and pooled their money to buy shades for the playground.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

People rushed to shutter windows and pull down special blackout shades.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti