umbrella
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Despite the pouring rain, few people carry an umbrella.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
But recent events have shown that much-vaunted security umbrella to be a leaky one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The immense umbrella cloud that forms does not behave like a normal ash plume that simply drifts with the prevailing wind.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Japan and South Korea show an interest in sheltering under the EU umbrella too.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Even in sheltered areas, under an umbrella of conifers, the snow was nearly knee deep and tedious to churn through.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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As the train arrived in San Clemente, passengers peered through the train windows to take in the crashing waves, sandy shoreline and beachgoers relaxing underneath umbrellas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
These are given predation umbrellas to protect them from the hungry fish having a nibble.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Residents used shawls and umbrellas to protect themselves in open-air hallways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The downpour is marked with a picture of Brits under umbrellas.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
But tens of thousands of spectators, most of them German, began to flood into the regatta grounds, huddled under black umbrellas or wearing rain slickers and hats.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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