moorings
Example Sentences
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He has no moorings, no internal guidance and no empathy.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Waltham Forest council previously said it was taking legal advice over "complex factors unique to moorings".
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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
There were no streetlamps here and little foot traffic, nothing but the bright moon and the smallboats bumping against their moorings.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
