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as in canopies
a raised covering over something for decoration or protection
the roof of the pavilion leaks when it rains
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as in residences
the place where one lives
as long as you're living under my roof, you'll obey my rules
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as in houses
to provide with living quarters or shelter
fed and roofed the emergency volunteers for a week
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Recent Examples of roofs
Jamie Hailstone, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Leaky pipes, faucets, roofs, or air conditioners can all create excess humidity and may lead to overly damp environments.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Most of it was made with materials from Kenya, while green roofs provide insulation.
—Rebekah Peppler, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2025
Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
—Staff Reports, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Rather than atop fire station roofs, sirens would be placed along areas prone to flash flooding that have both tone and voice capacity, Brissie said, allowing officials to broadcast a wailing alarm or spoken instructions.
—Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 18 Sep. 2025
Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
—Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
In New York City, local laws now require buildings over a certain size to include green roofs or solar panels.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Over the past three years, the city has begun to address long-overdue repairs, reopening pools, restoring lighting, and fixing building roofs, efforts that were largely neglected during Hernandez’s administration.
—Veronica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Mark Dalton, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
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The report says simple heat and air quality interventions such as urban greening, cool roofs, active transport, could cut related deaths by 15%.
—Jamie Hailstone, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Leaky pipes, faucets, roofs, or air conditioners can all create excess humidity and may lead to overly damp environments.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Most of it was made with materials from Kenya, while green roofs provide insulation.
—Rebekah Peppler, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2025
Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
—Staff Reports, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Rather than atop fire station roofs, sirens would be placed along areas prone to flash flooding that have both tone and voice capacity, Brissie said, allowing officials to broadcast a wailing alarm or spoken instructions.
—Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 18 Sep. 2025
Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
—Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
In New York City, local laws now require buildings over a certain size to include green roofs or solar panels.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Over the past three years, the city has begun to address long-overdue repairs, reopening pools, restoring lighting, and fixing building roofs, efforts that were largely neglected during Hernandez’s administration.
—Veronica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
School districts purchase iPads while textbooks fall apart and roofs leak.
—Mark Dalton, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roofs
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Perched inside bucket trucks — or occasionally climbing up ropes into the canopies — tree trimmers cut branches about 15 feet back from the power lines, sawing off enough growth to keep the lines clear for about five years.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
17 Sep. 2025
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Today, Smokejumpers arrived and climbed into the canopies of the Giant Sequoias to protect them from further damage.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Next year will welcome a Kempinski complex with 74 guest rooms and 186 residences, and Waldorf Astoria is planning a 120-room property for 2028.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
20 Sep. 2025
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Cook signed mortgage agreements declaring that houses in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Atlanta were each her principal residences, according to prior reports.—
Kevin Breuninger,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Bauhaus Archive Museum, designed by Gropius and opened in 1979, houses more than 50,000 objects—from furniture and textiles to photographs and architectural models.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This app also houses your ECG results, biometrics like blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), your sleep data, and more.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
16 Sep. 2025
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But when attendees arrived on the remote island, there was little food — except, famously, cheese sandwiches — along with tents for housing and no actual music performances as the festival crumbled, with McFarland blaming improper infrastructure.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The event will include the Moonlight Veterinary Center Dog Costume Contest, two lively beer gardens, food tents and more.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Drive less than an hour from central Sedona through otherworldly red rocks to the Honanki Heritage Site, where the ancestors of Northern Arizona’s Hopi Tribe lived in sprawling cliff dwellings between the 12th and 14th centuries.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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Nearly 91% of California’s homes was built before 2010, and there are 2 million dwellings in high-risk wildfire areas.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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Inside exudes historical glamour—soaring frescoed ceilings, decorative motifs and terrazzo floors untouched for centuries.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The furniture has been curated for its bright palette of whites and creams that blend harmoniously with the original stone walls and ceilings.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Architectural Digest,
17 Sep. 2025
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Through a succession of job changes, a don’t-open-the-mail approach to bill paying, abrupt moves to and from a string of increasingly cluttered abodes, Uhle recounts with humor and remarkable detail the unstable circumstances of her youth.—
Kristen Kidd,
Denver Post,
30 Aug. 2025
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Those daydreaming of taking in the sweeping sunrise vistas across Middle Harbour just got lucky because one of the most significant abodes on the street just surfaced on market for the first time in over four decades.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
27 Aug. 2025
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As demand for electricity surged to power more electric devices in homes and Big Tech's boom in data centers, renewable energy has been the go-to source for the cheapest, fastest way to generate more juice.—
Jeff Young,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Our homes are a backdrop to our lives.—
Amanda Lauren,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Roofs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roofs. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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