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hood

[hood] / hʊd /


NOUN
a covering for vehicles and the like
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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

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

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

“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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