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hood

[hood] / hʊd /


NOUN
a covering for vehicles and the like
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Echoing that signature yellow hue: a walnut island, a hammered barrel-vaulted copper hood, a copper farmhouse sink and replicated 1920s cabinetry painted “Matchstick” by Farrow & Ball.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

"It's one thing to look at chemistry and a set of materials at the single cell level in a fume hood," said Bailey.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Under the hood in each Apple device are powerful, Apple-designed chips capable of much more than just powering the new Siri.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

But it’s still worth looking under the hood to make sure you understand just what you are getting.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

It gave a sudden, deliberate flick, whipping back Clare’s hood.

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

I stuck to slapping the hoods and windows of so many cars that my hand turned black with soot.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

The thin aluminum sheets produced at the plant are later stamped into fenders, hoods and other exterior vehicle parts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

"She knows what she was told was based on false hoods... She should out the newspapers on the offering of money for stories."

From BBC Jan. 31, 2026

Mr Clothier explains: "The methanogenic bacteria are gobbling up all the solids and generating loads of lovely methane, which we then catch in the hoods over the top."

From BBC Dec. 17, 2025

The girls of the Menagerie entered through the rotunda doors in a wedge formation, their gowns glittering in the candlelight, the hoods of their capes shadowing their faces.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim sang Alessandro with a hooded quality and too much vibrato; he sounded messy, especially in the big register jumps of his agitated Act 2 aria.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

At the time of the attack, Abdul B is believed to have been wearing a black hooded top and white trousers.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

On a chilly spring night, Caligiuri, wearing a hooded Adidas jacket and black sweatpants, stands in the center of a small soccer field on a bluff in Mission Viejo.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2026

Patel has shown up to events in hooded sweatshirts and sneakers and sometimes wears a badge despite not being a special agent.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 2, 2026

They were halfway across it when they found their path blocked by a hooded figure.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

The upper tends to address hooding and volume loss of the eyelid, while the lower focuses on puffiness and dark circles or hollowing under the eye, says Dr. Flora Levin, a Connecticut-based oculoplastic surgeon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 1, 2026

Zhang, an award-winning author of “How Much of These Hills Is Gold” and “Land of Milk and Honey,” was scheduled to speak at the May 8 education school doctoral hooding ceremony.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2024

She attended a Baptist pastor’s hooding ceremony, a public event for a Japanese sister city, and a luau held by a local nonprofit’s C.E.O.

From The New Yorker Aug. 12, 2019

I decided to order the cessation of all hooding as it had become particularly emotive in light of the death of Baha Mousa.

From BBC May 18, 2010

Gollum blinked, hooding the malice of his eyes with their heavy pale lids.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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