moon
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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
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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
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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
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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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