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Moira

[moi-ruh] / ˈmɔɪ rə /




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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

In his email to members on Saturday, MacAskill also said the party would continue to support Salmond's widow Moira in court action against the Scottish government.

From BBC Feb. 22, 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

Moira survived displacement by turning it into theater.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2026

Then about two days after this snub in Room 20, I was coming down the stairs of the main house when I found Moira B. just behind me.

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

To keep this pact, I find surpass my power; Rescind it, Moirai!

From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke

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




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