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
One of the main things he bears in mind when deciding where to moor up is ensuring he can get to and from work from there.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
The prisoners saying a chorale, they sing in parts, and it sounds almost as if there were no voices, but an organ far away on the moor.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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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
“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
Then, with a sigh, a kind of moan, I start very carefully down the cliffs that lead to the fens and moors and Hrothgar’s hall.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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These converged at a low stone tower, suggesting the central superstructure of a ship, around which its decks are moored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In Tamworth, Alan Berry's narrowboat is moored at the bottom of his garden on the Coventry Canal.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
They looked at boats moored close together in marinas, or alone at the ends of long docks.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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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
The crews use mooring ropes to lash the ships as close as 11 feet from each other so that they roll in the waves together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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
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
Then Nathaniel, coming back down the road on a run, slipped the rope from the mooring and as they pulled away from the wharf leaped nimbly to his place with the crew.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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