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tarp

[tahrp] / tɑrp /


NOUN
drop cloth
Synonyms


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Samantha Weldon, manager at the Silver City resort, still encourages people to tarp up, especially if they are embarking on a multiday hike.

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

So he folds up the tarp, throws it away and goes back to the hospital.

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

They’d wrapped their feet in sailcloth and bound them up in blue plastic pampooties cut from a tarp and they left strange tracks in their comings and going.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Now, during high marmot season between May and July, blue, green and beige tarps shroud most cars at Mineral King, which sits below jagged Sierra Nevada peaks.

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

In the Oval Office, tarps were being spread out on the floor to protect the rug.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge


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