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tarp

[tahrp] / tɑrp /


NOUN
drop cloth
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He likened conventional TMS to covering a leak with a tarp to manage its effects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

The rest of the Kennedy Center’s name is blocked by scaffolding that is wrapped in a white tarp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The administration complied but placed a tarp over the sign, which has remained ever since.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

But South Korea's heatwave has made it uninhabitable, forcing him to seek refuge under a makeshift tarp just a stone’s throw from Gangnam’s gleaming skyscrapers, where the wealthy remain cool in their aloof abodes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Still clothed, Father and I lie on a tarp and wrap ourselves in blankets.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

An equipment box labeled “Garden Party”! Mysterious shapes covered in black-plastic tarps!

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

To create a movement, though, Pratt does not need to know what causes seas of tarps and tents.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

Her detailed, beautifully lighted paintings, of humble industrial scenes of corrugated ductwork, draped construction tarps and snaking wires, elevate these humble, utilitarian objects into tactile formal experiments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Iran can control the strait using missile launchers hidden under tarps on the back of pickup trucks.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

They put some strong logs in the ground and stretched green tarps across the top.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana


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