Moira
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"Elle is a cute, funny fish-out-of-water comedy series", wrote arts critic Moira Macdonald.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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
He said the party would continue to support Salmond's widow Moira in court action against the Scottish government.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Moira was there for me off and on as I tried to settle into a new life and stop the pattern of moving every couple years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
And I noticed I didn’t feel angry at all with them any more; just hugely irritated with Moira.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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
But the mighty Moirai, whose word even Zeus himself may not turn aside, had fixed the doom of Meleagros.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
Their tragedies were largely limited to Nemesis, the Moirai, the Erinnydes, and lower forms, such as harpies.
From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
