hood
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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
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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
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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
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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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