hood
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Photos released by the sheriff’s department show a dark, late-model sedan with a crushed hood and a damaged front bumper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The person was wearing a hat with a hood over it, making identification difficult for police.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Volatility ETFs and ETNs don’t get around this problem, because when you look under the hood, they own VIX futures at the core of their position.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 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
Her cheeks were pink with excitement, and her hood was flung back over her shoulders.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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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
One running gag involves the hotel’s irritation at the nearby goats who trample on the hoods of parked cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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
“And how come they took their hoods off?”
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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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
But merging in along the route were sections of masked, hooded invidividuals, many dressed all in in black.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 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
It opened with a lone hooded figure running onto the stage holding a red flare as fans chanted "BTS, BTS, BTS".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
Slowly, he followed the hooded figure along a crooked hall until they reached what looked like the back of the shop, where usually inventory would be kept.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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“I never thought I would get plastic surgery,” said Caruso, who opted in after noticing that her eyeliner no longer showed up on her eyes due to hooding.
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
The army general who ran UK military operations during the Iraq war has said he did not know about a 1972 ruling banning the hooding of detainees.
From BBC ● May 18, 2010
At her glance the overseer blinked quickly, then composed himself, his lids hooding his little dark eyes, his rosebud mouth tightening to a slit.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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