moon
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The agendas also contained a distorted periodic table, unreadable phases of the moon and other garbled educational material that parents suspect may have been created using artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
It’s why, for years, I lusted over the Omega Speedmaster Professional — famously the first watch to go to the moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Wallace had livestreamed the partial solar eclipse from his back garden in March 2025, when the moon blocked 30 to 40% of the sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Consider his point of view: America is the indefatigable Colossus, an object of awe that put a man on the moon in a decade and produced an atomic bomb in half that time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Far in the west a pale moon went down.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
One theory for the origin of the Martian moons -- the "giant impact" hypothesis -- is that they formed after a celestial body collided with Mars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 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 researchers favor the idea that Neptune's original moons were destroyed, but they cannot yet eliminate another possibility.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Researchers think some of the debris from that violent event later gathered together to create the small inner moons that orbit Neptune today.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The ceiling, which had somehow become curved, was filled with little round moons.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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
That idea was encapsulated by the verbal exchange as Peggy mooned over those roses.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2014
You wouldn't even be getting this kind of coverage if Silvio Berlusconi mooned Barack Obama in front of the UN.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 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
Eddie mooned on down to La Ida and talked to his friend the bartender.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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
He does big swings of mood, laughing hysterically, weeping when necessary, mooning over nature like a Beat poet.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 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
“Say, what’re you doing today, anyhow? All dressed up and mooning around like the prologue to a suttee. Did you go to Psychology this morning?”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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