as in roof
a raised covering over something for decoration or protection
a huge tent was erected for the outdoor wedding reception
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Recent Examples of tent
Allie Volpe, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
This transformation has been happening for decades across the 58 refugee camps run by UNRWA in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the region, as tent camps became residential blocks.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 9 Aug. 2024
The property also offers off-grid tenting through its ‘autonomous tent collection,’ which is powered by its own dedicated solar arrays and designed with bamboo flooring, walk-in showers, and private fire pits for watching the dramatic sunsets each night.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 25 July 2024
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Noun
Family, career, and faith (as well as money) still remain common drivers of meaning, but some measures suggest these tent poles of connection are diminishing in significance.
—Allie Volpe, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
This transformation has been happening for decades across the 58 refugee camps run by UNRWA in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the region, as tent camps became residential blocks.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
Verb
Christopher Grubb, an interior designer and founder of Beverly Hills’s Arch-Interiors Design Group, says the option can still work, especially when tented in an airy outdoor fabric.
—Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 9 Aug. 2024
The property also offers off-grid tenting through its ‘autonomous tent collection,’ which is powered by its own dedicated solar arrays and designed with bamboo flooring, walk-in showers, and private fire pits for watching the dramatic sunsets each night.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 25 July 2024
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Think bouncing a ball off the roof when a parent is trying to concentrate.Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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The real showstopper, however, is the roof terrace, which comes complete with a pool to cool off in the dog days of summer, and offers views that stretch all the way to St. Peter’s—expect Rome’s next-gen cool crowd to gravitate here once the warmer days of spring roll around in 2024.Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
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In other research on exercise and sleep out of Iowa State University, study participants were grouped into resistance training workouts, aerobic workouts, and combination workouts (both resistance and aerobic exercise).Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 28 June 2024
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Still, the protesters slept out in the open after police took their tents, despite temperatures in the low 30s.Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
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The most imposing constructions, hidden by nature, towered above the tree canopy.Anna Lagos, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2024
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The canopy separated hexagonal House and Senate chambers across from each other.Jeremy Duda, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
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Hall and Hind spent months encamped in Eucalyptus’s Sydney, Australia offices, learning how the company’s customer support systems worked.Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
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Since April, amid the now eight-month long Israel-Hamas war, university students in over two dozen schools across the country have taken to protesting and encamping in solidarity with Palestine to get their schools to break direct and indirect ties with Israel.Brenda Barrientos, refinery29.com, 14 June 2024
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“Tent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tent. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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