canopy
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In other footage, the Israeli forces appear to have confiscated the canopy under which the settlers were sheltering, while leaving their other equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Thick tree cover made it difficult for the helicopter crew to see through the canopy, adding another challenge to locating the victim,” officials stated in a post on Facebook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
In an old-growth forest with a dense, multi-layered canopy, visual estimates can be highly misleading.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is naturally affected by lightning fires that spread rapidly through the canopy, making them difficult to control.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Powers managed to knock out the plane's canopy and push his body out of the plane.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Their thick bark and elevated canopies offer protection, while smaller fires clear vegetation, recycle nutrients, and create conditions that help new sequoias grow.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
I saw canopies of Iraqi flags, bodies out every window, everyone dancing to a faint hip-hop pulse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
They also used instruments that measured CO2 levels in tree canopies every hour and sensors attached to tree trunks that tracked tiny changes in trunk size throughout the day.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Newport Beach now prohibits canopies larger than 6 feet by 6 feet and requires that the structures not be connected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
They towered overhead, arching together in vast canopies.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Vimalakirti leans over the edge of his canopied bed with an impatient stare, as he argues that it is possible to enjoy earthly life while still abiding by Buddhist nonattachment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
By arborist Rebecca Latta’s estimate, thousands of trees in Altadena have been tagged for removal: oaks, pines, sycamores, deodar cedars — trees that have canopied the town for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
Surrounded by hundreds of police officers and supporters, they hunker down inside a canopied structure made of blue tarpaulin sheets that serves as a tent.
From BBC ● May 22, 2023
I want her world to be canopied by moonlight and the breathtaking Milky Way.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The latter had become known at the Nest, solely by the circumstance that the object which had so lately canopied aristocracy in St. Andrew's, Ravensrest, was now canopying pigs up at the farm house.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
Under the canopying smoke of London or Edinburgh, even amongst the beautiful fields of England or Scotland, there is nothing to be made of him.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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