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moon

[moon] / mun /




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The festival falls on the darkest night of the Hindu lunar month of Kartik, when the moon is not visible in the sky.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

So around sunset, look east to see the moon rise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

"The moon is perfect, and yet I only found two little ones last night," Giuseppe Esposito, 69, told AFP as he searched with his dog Attila.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

We are still trying to get a couple of clients out of investments they made with prior advisers that promised the moon but have failed to deliver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Using the moon pendant that hung from her neck, the Moon Witch pushed it into the empty spot.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

The school gymnasium was more chaotic, with voters and volunteers, than it has been in many election moons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

NASA’s La Cañada Flintridge-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory built this snakelike machine with the goal of one day using it to explore difficult-to-reach places on other planets, moons or asteroids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Astronomers have spent years looking for moons around objects beyond our Solar System, but no candidate has yet been detected with enough certainty to establish a confirmed discovery.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

One theory for the origin of the moons -- the "giant impact" hypothesis -- is that they formed after a celestial body collided with Mars.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

In discovering the moons of Jupiter, Galileo had discovered new worlds, just as the navigators had done.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

While accepting the prize, Madonna reminisced about how her manager scolded her backstage at the very first MTV awards show, where she briefly mooned the audience in a performance fumble.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

Almost disgusting, Rat said, the way they mooned over each other.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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

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

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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