moon
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The agency publishes a schedule of what days and times to expect the ritual, based on moon cycles and the timing at San Pedro’s Cabrillo Beach, a known grunion hotspot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The paper leads with the words of one mother whose son died in the crowd crush: "I'm over the moon".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
In contrast, parts of the moon have remained largely unchanged for billions of years, making them an ideal archive of early solar system history.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
SpaceX has big dreams, including colonizing Mars, operating orbital data centers and putting a mass driver on the moon that would make it easier to put satellites in orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Suddenly a knight came toward him, also dressed in full armor, a shining moon painted on his shield.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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Symbols that the pioneering assemblage artist has been “remixing” for more than seven decades — stars, moons, eyes, hands — emerge in vibrant washes of magenta, teal and her favored crepuscular blues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"Many celestial bodies like moons and planets that are very close to their parent stars are what we call tidally locked," he explains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
If many of those planets also host moons, the number of possible environments where life could exist may be far larger than previously thought.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
Many moons ago I received the great accolade of being named Premier League manager of the season - with Crystal Palace in 2014.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
Patches covered the entire back panel with moons, rocket ships, skulls, alien heads, and something that looked like a chupacabra.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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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
Would there be a ShyBelligerent if he still were mooning around Compton?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
To say that “a computer understands” is like saying that your car is losing its sense of humor or mooning over an old girlfriend.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023
Footage captured the moment a terminally ill man was arrested by police officers after "mooning" at speed camera van.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021
I used to resent it when my mother would forget I was an adult, but I’m approaching the maundering phase myself, digging out the yellowing baby pictures, mooning over locks of hair.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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