moon
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As Mars sang "put your pinky rings up to the moon", thousands of little fingers rose into the air.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
While earlier studies had examined the movement of water molecules on the moon, this research is the first to model the behavior of an organic molecule such as methane.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Those include colonizing Mars, putting more than 1 million satellites in orbit and putting mass drivers on the moon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The crescent moon shone overhead, and the blue light of the day made it seem as though nothing had changed.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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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
Orbiting the fish is a constellation of things and signs: flora, flags, stars, vases, moons, arrows, a human‑headed flower, a zygote and a Christian cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Although the moons survive, their orbits can change dramatically.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
As these moons move closer to and farther from their planet during each orbit, powerful gravitational forces continuously stretch and squeeze them.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
“Why don’t you help Corey with the fondant. He’s cutting out moons and stars, so super simple, but there are a million of them.”
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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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
The worst that anti-gay rights activists faced was being mooned or flipped the bird.
From Slate ● May 16, 2012
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
Almost disgusting, Rat said, the way they mooned over each other.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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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
Anduaga’s soigné style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
Now it’s possible to find statues of gnomes mooning, sitting on the toilet and vomiting rainbows.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
Joseph was the fourth son—a kind of mooning boy, greatly beloved and protected by the whole family.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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