moon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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