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Moira

[moi-ruh] / ˈmɔɪ rə /




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And one can only hope there was a wig wall somewhere inspired by Catherine O’Hara’s Moira Rose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Forest Holidays Ltd, Moira, failed to pay £100,308.68 to 598 workers.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Bouma, working with Moira Jardine of the University of St Andrews, focused on an unusual class of M dwarfs known as complex periodic variables.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026

Paul McManus, drummer with the Scottish band Gun and a supporter of Scottish Labour, has now said he will fund the action after Salmond's widow Moira agreed to transfer the legal rights of the case.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

"I got it from Moira, my friend at the Washington Post. You remember her?"

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

The actress also points to the mythological figures known as The Fates or Moirai, who appear throughout the series and become increasingly central to Zoe's emotional unravelling.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

He now lives back in New York, where his next project will be Gbadu and the Moirai Index, a work for four female singers to be performed near the New York stock exchange.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013

Public fact becomes private reality, and the seasons of a Midwestern town become the Moirai of our small lives.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Then the soul of the brave Herakles was stirred within him, and he sware that the Moirai should not win the victory.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines

Suddenly, as she yet spake, the Moirai stood before her.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines


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