shade
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"I can't believe it. Now we don't have noise and all our equipment is still working," Arevalo, 59, told AFP from his food cart parked under the shade of trees in a Queens park.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Dr Richard Comont adds that putting in a pond - however small - and shade can also help.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Mine is a shade of camel that my haberdasher insists on calling “whiskey.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The Lauensteins’ kitchen with its signature “Lauenstein Yellow” shade of tile, which was especially created for the homeowners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
When I go out, she likes to wait for me on shore, somewhere in the shade, because her pale white skin burns so easily.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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That sort of black-and-white thinking was always going to clash with the shades of gray in Christopher Nolan’s smash-hit adaptation of “The Odyssey.”
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
The beauty brand founder took selfies with Meta executives at the New York event while wearing the shades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has released a dazzling new image featuring more than 500,000 stars glowing in shades of red, white, and blue.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
They wander among the houses -- painted mostly in shades of white, yellow or brown -- and go biking or hiking in the surrounding hills of central Slovakia.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
A stool posed in front of a backdrop painted with shades of swirling gray.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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He was speaking from the shaded courtyard garden of his Mayer am Pfarrplatz heuriger, down the steps from the room where Beethoven stayed while composing part of the Ninth Symphony.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Sometimes, a fancy beverage, a shaded spot, and friends are all you need.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
“For example, how do you make sure that buses, metro systems, and also walking and cycling routes, are shaded and can still be used during heat waves?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Not all the plants survived, partly because half the garden is shaded by a large magnolia tree on the parking strip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
A baby sleeps shaded inside his cradleboard, hanging from a tree.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
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Her keen shading of dynamics served two purposes: It made potentially static music engaging, and it lent drama to a narrative arc shaped largely by biography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The HSE suggests that work should be rescheduled to cooler times of the day, and that employers introduce more frequent rest breaks, introduce shading to rest areas and provide free access to cool drinking water.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
On the sidewalk outside a charging station in downtown Abuja, women shading themselves with umbrellas sell mangoes and peanuts steps away from a Tesla Cybertruck.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
It’s an added shading, an honest commentary, that feels right, as if it were there all along in the DNA of this well-traveled tale of existential concern, just waiting to be uncovered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
The rider who’d fled had reined in his horse and turned around to look back, shading his eyes to see what was going on.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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