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moon

[moon] / mun /




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The guy then ignores said friend—only to learn that those crypto holdings are going to the moon while his own investments are going nowhere.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

Mars' innermost moon, Phobos, has puzzled planetary scientists for decades.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

Haser says survival may have been possible if the moon had an unusually low and relatively uniform density, allowing it to absorb the impact somewhat like a sponge.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

"We were over the moon, our wedding was going to be paid off," recalls the 34-year-old mother-of-one from Middlesbrough.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Her hopes would shoot to the moon if I told her.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Goth Shakira: It’s the full moon in Aquarius today, and full moons represent a culmination.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The search for life on Mars or on icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus may capture more attention, but another major astrobiology mystery is much closer to home.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

The spacecraft will also observe Demios, the other of Mars' moons -- but without landing -- before a return capsule heads back to Earth to land in Australia in around 2031.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Jupiter’s moons made this arrangement rather less implausible than it had seemed.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Perkins: What’s so great about this is seeing someone who looks like Lakeith being mooned after.

From Slate Nov. 20, 2019

She and Tom Arnold had mooned the crowd at a World Series game to show off their matching tattoos.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2018

Buffy The Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel, were cult classics, the just-home-from-school fantasy shows that made vampires sexy long before R-Patz and Kristen mooned at each other in Twilight.

From The Guardian Jun. 2, 2013

So far, she seems mild-mannered compared with McQueen, who once mooned the crowd, in lieu of a bow, at the end of his runway show.

From Seattle Times May 9, 2011

Mate mooned over one in red patent leather with a snap in the shape of a heart.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”

From Slate Dec. 22, 2024

Now it’s possible to find statues of gnomes mooning, sitting on the toilet and vomiting rainbows.

From Washington Post Mar. 16, 2023

Bad-boy drummer Tommy Lee, known for mooning the audience and for his marriage to Heather Locklear, is a key part of the band’s hardcore image.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 2, 2022

Footage captured the moment a terminally ill man was arrested by police officers after "mooning" at speed camera van.

From BBC Nov. 10, 2021

It was a place to stay away from, not a place where a young girl should lay about and sip broth, even if her grandfather was mooning over her nurse.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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