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hood

[hood] / hʊd /


NOUN
a covering for vehicles and the like
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Looking under the hood at insurers suggests they can keep going in that direction for a while.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

The movie ends with Ricky Bobby speeding in a car without sponsors, a massive “ME” splashed on the hood.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

She was invited there as a guest and says she caught the eye of Hollywood megastar Zendaya, thanks to her custom look: a striking gold gown complete with a hood.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

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

I nod from the closed tunnel of my parka hood and pull my team over to rest.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

Small tips, like the cut of hoods, or the excess arm space runners need in order to move, showed students how intricate even the simplest of pieces needed to be.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

Companies that buy aluminum to make everything from soda cans to car hoods have been feeling the pain of more expensive aluminum.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 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

The scarves were removed and their hoods drawn back, and they blinked and gasped.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The group also says that in January 2020 more than 2,000 hooded vultures were found dead in Guinea-Bissau, many with their heads removed - a sign of belief-based practices rather than natural causes, researchers say.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

We open in a post-apocalyptic Pasadena, following a hooded character through a dark landscape of burned out cars and mutant distractions to Stuart’s somehow still-open comic book store.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Tall, a lawyer, was taken on May 2 in Bamako by hooded men, his family said.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

Wearing an ill-fitting hooded sweatshirt, with gray stubbles and baggy eyes, he didn’t look like a typical upscale tourist.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

With his long dark hair and hooded white chaulnot, riding a spectral with panache and speaking Unseen as though his smoky voice were made for it, Lazlo could almost pass for one of the Tizerkane.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Their accounts echo those of the Negra Francisca crew: cuffing and hooding by armed English-speakers before being turned over to a Salvadoran patrol craft, which took them to El Salvador.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

The upper tends to address hooding and volume loss of the eyelid, while the lower focuses on puffiness and dark circles or hollowing under the eye, says Dr. Flora Levin, a Connecticut-based oculoplastic surgeon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 1, 2026

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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