tarp
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The rest of the Kennedy Center’s name is blocked by scaffolding that is wrapped in a white tarp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But a tarp has remained over the facade since that time, sparking questions about the actual changes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
He briefly considers a bizarre woven tapestry featuring his brothers’ faces rendered in fabric before settling on a blue, crinkly tarp.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
“It is just heartbreaking to see these totally innocent creatures, in various states of decomposition, be taken out and put on a tarp and put in the black plastic garbage bag for evidence,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
He raised up the tarp and pulled it over them and then used the rocks to hold down the edges inside.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
But over the past 15 years or so, he and other visitors switched to plastic tarps after the marmots learned how to beat it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
An equipment box labeled “Garden Party”! Mysterious shapes covered in black-plastic tarps!
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
To create a movement, though, Pratt does not need to know what causes seas of tarps and tents.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
Millions of people have fled the fighting and are living cheek-by-jowl in displacement camps, under tarps and tents and with poor hygiene conditions.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Lamps burn low and tarps black out the windows above ground, an effort to conceal the building from Hitler’s bombers.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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