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moor

[moor] / mʊər /


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The proceeds bought a Chicago-area mansion, a private jet and a 12,000-square-foot waterfront home in Naples, Fla., with its own dock to moor his 130-foot yacht, Top Dog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Extra resources come in at that point where something as important as RAF Fylingdales is threatened by wildfire because it's literally in the middle of a moor, it's very vulnerable," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

"They want to come here and experience the Brontes, the moor, and find their own interpretation of Emily," he said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

Its single “Chains of Love” is a hybrid of new and old, with orchestral flourishes bouncing off the singer’s voice, which is processed to sound pinched and distant—as if echoing across a windswept moor, perhaps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Having crossed the marsh, I saw a trace of white over the moor.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Days of dry and windy weather have made conditions challenging for fire crews and volunteers tackling flames burning across peatland moors and in woodland.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

In her story of ill-starred lovers and class divisions set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, England, Emily Brontë creates two contrasting visions of home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” looks just as the voracious reader imagines it as they tear through the novel: drafty houses, windy moors, color and texture that bound from the screen.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

In my teens, I discovered the wild moors and ancient halls of “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

The creatures of the Stone circled a while croaking, and one by one beat back ponderously inland over the moors.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ray Garland was already on the USS Tennessee, moored at Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row, when the Japanese attacked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

On Wednesday a drone struck a US-owned gas vessel moored in an Egyptian port, causing a fire.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Satellites, moored arrays of sensors and research ships are gathering data from the modern ocean too.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Three days before the U.S. game in Seattle some 500 fans, most wearing the blue-and-white striped jerseys of Argentina, filed onto a 322-foot cargo barge moored in Elliott Bay to watch their team play Algeria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The moored boats were all very similar to one another, Christopher saw—smaller, even, than their own, and painted clinical green or black.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

A 10,000-square-foot restricted access warehouse to be built at the port will house mooring lines, pedestrian barriers, gangways and repair gear for the US Navy, said a spokeswoman.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Asked about the 5.5 million barrels of fuel that, according to Kpler data, arrived from Russia at the company’s mooring in the bay of Mersin this year, Ayrik said he couldn’t discuss the company’s customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

The steam mooring lighter with Victorian equipment and early diving gear is believed to have been lost in 1903 while travelling from Portsmouth to Portland.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

The mooring lines tethered to the ocean floor are made of rope nearly thick as a telephone pole and under heavy tension.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

That’s how Mr. Miyamoto kept his mooring lines—bowlined and pretty well worn out, except the one.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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