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moor

[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

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

“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

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

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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