moorings
Example Sentences
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He has no moorings, no internal guidance and no empathy.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Their pop-historical account of the Constitution has been debunked from top to bottom by legitimate legal historians, who have refuted the rotten moorings of this bogus theory with devastating precision.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2025
The attack damaged one of the moorings at a Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal, whose shareholders include Russia and Kazakhstan as well as U.S. majors Chevron and Exxon Mobil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
In a way the rising take-up for these memberships reflects India's broader post-liberalisation growth story – when the country opened up to the world and discarded its socialist moorings.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
A sudden and completely unexpected storm tore a purse-seiner and three lampara boats loose from their moorings and tossed them broken and sad on Del Monte beach.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
