moor
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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
A wildfire started in the area on 15 July and the incident, which has burned through thousands of acres of woodland and moor, continues to be monitored for hotspots.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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
Its single “Chains of Love” is a hybrid of new and old, with orchestral flourishes bouncing off the singer’s voice, which is processed to sound pinched and distant—as if echoing across a windswept moor, perhaps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
I know the name of every owner of every British moor, yes—and their tenants, too.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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“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
We eventually find it, set in a rugged landscape of hills and moors, and even the steady rain can't disguise its beauty.
From BBC ● May 26, 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
About midday we go for a stroll on the moors.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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Ray Garland was already on the USS Tennessee, moored at Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row, when the Japanese attacked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
On Wednesday, a drone struck a US-owned gas vessel moored in an Egyptian port, causing a fire.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 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 drove over a canal and from atop the bridge I could see dozens of houseboats moored along the water.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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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 10,000-square-foot restricted access warehouse to be built at the port will house mooring lines, pedestrian barriers, gangways and repair gear for the US Navy, said a spokeswoman.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
Analysis of mooring observations and hydrographic data suggest the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation deep water limb in the North Atlantic has weakened.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
We had missed the mooring on the first go-round, and the captain was in an ugly mood.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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