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moor

[moor] / mʊər /


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Grace often takes her granddaughter, nearly five, onto the moor.

From BBC Apr. 19, 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

"So I went up into a top field and saw what I thought at the time to be a paraglider on the moor edge, engines and lights everywhere."

From BBC Feb. 3, 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

But before I had a chance to do another thing, we heard a shout from across the moor and looked to see two men coming over a rise toward us, waving as they walked.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

They are Europe's largest wading bird, and spend winters near coastlines and summers further inland on grasslands and moors.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

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

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

From Slate Apr. 28, 2026

Cathy befriends young Heathcliff after her rich, alcoholic father brings him to live and work as a servant on their estate perched atop the windy English moors.

From Salon Feb. 14, 2026

Dreadful as the Dead Marshes had been, and the arid moors of the Noman-lands, more loathsome far was the country that the crawling day now slowly unveiled to his shrinking eyes.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Officers who had been recovered from the river were seen being treated by paramedics on a rigid black inflatable boat moored to the side of the river.

From BBC Jul. 24, 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

Storm Erminio has flooded streets, closed some schools and moored ferries.

From BBC Apr. 2, 2026

It’s not a fancy place, but it’s the best spot on all of the Cape—and it’s on the pier where the Reel is moored.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Polanski said he believed any charges linked to the mooring, including council tax, were covered by the fees he paid, and insisted there was no intention to evade payment.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

Asked about the 5.5 million barrels of fuel that, according to Kpler data, arrived from Russia at the company’s mooring in the bay of Mersin this year, Ayrik said he couldn’t discuss the company’s customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 27, 2025

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

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 made the mooring all right on the second try.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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