moor
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"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
"Hopefully they will be okay because the wind is horrendous up on the moor edge," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 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
The April 2021 wildfires caused purple moor grass "to really take off" and prevented other plants, like heather, growing back.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
My own black ship I chose to moor alone on the sea side, using a rock for bollard; and climbed a rocky point to get my bearings.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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“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
In my teens, I discovered the wild moors and ancient halls of “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights.”
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
The howl and whine of the opening few bars of “Chains of Love” conjure images of the ghostly moors, before transforming into a catchy midtempo pop number.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Black fields with young green wheat, fields of rye, corn, and moors of heath.
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
Unveiling a plaque, he said: "My parents' canal journeys ended here in 2019, but they moored here for 20 years before that."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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 helicopter gradually began to move, following the colorful current of evidence all the way up the beach, all the way to the marina where the Coral Queen was moored.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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Asked about the 5.5 million barrels of fuel that, according to Kpler data, arrived from Russia at the company’s mooring in the bay of Mersin this year, Ayrik said he couldn’t discuss the company’s customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium said the attack had caused significant damage to a mooring point.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
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
The mooring lines tethered to the ocean floor are made of rope nearly thick as a telephone pole and under heavy tension.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
After mooring the canoes safely to the bank, the men began to unload the canoes for another long portage.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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