moored
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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
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
“Psychologically, I’m moored somewhere. This place is my anchor.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
The woods were lit with lanterns, and far below in the bay, through the interstices of trees, she could make out the deck lights of moored pleasure boats.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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