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canopy

[kan-uh-pee] / ˈkæn ə pi /


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Aboard the popemobile, the smiling pontiff blessed several babies and waved to worshippers, as he made his way from the Arc de Triomphe to Place de la Concorde, where a giant white canopy was installed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Near the summit they metamorphose into stone tree branches, interweaving like a forest canopy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

The sun’s frail light no longer broke the canopy, and in the deepening shadows, the faint glow of the four realms was beginning to appear.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Building sites, for example, must provide workers with suitable clothing such as jackets with built-in fans, as well as air-conditioned break rooms and canopies to ensure shade.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

There has long been a divide between locals and out-of-town visitors over the giant canopies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

The deer made beds in shallow niches deep within the thickets where the oaks grew tall and made canopies of limbs and branches.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The city seal is a tree and residents say the canopied streets are major contributors to the quality of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

This long block in Altadena — canopied with oaks and camphor trees and bookended by two roads — offered a rare small-town feel in the L.A. metropolis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

Three or four times as many CBP field operations officers in navy blue uniforms helped the migrants into white vans for a short drive to a canopied field intake center.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2023

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

It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, “onding on snaw,” canopied all; thence flakes fell at intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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




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