moor
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"Extra resources come in at that point where something as important as RAF Fylingdales is threatened by wildfire because it's literally in the middle of a moor, it's very vulnerable," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
He said with it being a Bank Holiday weekend, they are advising people to leave this section of the moor alone, and not be tempted to "have a look".
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
They fell at once to swearing as I ordered, and when the round of oaths had ceased, we found a halfmoon bay to beach and moor the ship in, with a fresh spring nearby.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Days of dry and windy weather have made conditions challenging for fire crews and volunteers tackling flames burning across peatland moors and in woodland.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
While driving around Hebden Bridge and towns surrounding nearby Halifax, I more than once imagined I was Catherine Cawood and marveled at Wainwright’s loyalty to this land, its cities, towns, farms and moors.
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
He reads, he walks on the moors, in the fields.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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On Wednesday, a drone struck a US-owned gas vessel moored in an Egyptian port, causing a fire.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 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
“The boat was moored in the private harbour belonging to Manderley?”
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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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
"I thought I had been paying monthly mooring fees and I presumed the council tax would be included in that," Polanski told broadcasters on Thursday.
From BBC ● May 14, 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
Rain had filled the gully and a heavy flow of muddy water loosened his board from its gravel mooring.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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