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[moor] / mʊər /


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The proceeds bought a Chicago-area mansion, a private jet and a 12,000-square-foot waterfront home in Naples, Fla., with its own dock to moor his 130-foot yacht, Top Dog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Extra resources come in at that point where something as important as RAF Fylingdales is threatened by wildfire because it's literally in the middle of a moor, it's very vulnerable," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

"They want to come here and experience the Brontes, the moor, and find their own interpretation of Emily," he said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

"Hopefully they will be okay because the wind is horrendous up on the moor edge," he said.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

“It’s impossiblated to moor at the foot of their mountain, so you’ll have to drop anchor further out. You can rowboat in. I shall guard the ship. If marauders come, I shall eats them.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

In her story of ill-starred lovers and class divisions set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, England, Emily Brontë creates two contrasting visions of home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” looks just as the voracious reader imagines it as they tear through the novel: drafty houses, windy moors, color and texture that bound from the screen.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Instead, the experimental units can be plants, plots of land, fields, moors, forests, or oceans.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

I still saw people sailing to and from Penikese from time to time, and I imagined them digging up what was left of the moors.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

It’s reminiscent of a question asked more than a century ago when a visitor noticed stockbrokers’ fine sailboats moored near Wall Street: “But where are the customers’ yachts?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Satellites, moored arrays of sensors and research ships are gathering data from the modern ocean too.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Three days before the U.S. game in Seattle some 500 fans, most wearing the blue-and-white striped jerseys of Argentina, filed onto a 322-foot cargo barge moored in Elliott Bay to watch their team play Algeria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The futures contracts aren’t moored to any underlying equity stake in the company.

From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026

We make our way down toward the riverbank, where our ships are moored.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

After the mooring lines were dropped, passengers and crew heard a faint bang and felt a shudder deep within the airship, which was at that point well more than 100 feet in the air.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

A major Russian oil terminal near the southern port of Novorossiysk halted operations early Saturday after a naval drone attack damaged one of its three mooring points.

From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025

Mr Bane said he had woken up when he heard the anchor alarm - which rings if the boat is straying from its mooring - and realised that Sarm was no longer on the yacht.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

The mooring lines tethered to the ocean floor are made of rope nearly thick as a telephone pole and under heavy tension.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

Then Kabuo’s mooring lines were made fast to deck cleats in the efficiently wrought half hitches Carl Heine could lay out with no thought or hesitation.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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