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[moon] / mun /




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"The moon is perfect, and yet I only found two little ones last night," Giuseppe Esposito, 69, told AFP as he searched with his dog Attila.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

A full moon on Monday converged with warmer than normal waters to ramp up high tides in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

We are still trying to get a couple of clients out of investments they made with prior advisers that promised the moon but have failed to deliver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

This particular full moon is known by several names, including the Hunter's Moon, a name rooted in historical traditions in the Northern Hemisphere.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

He’d not kept track of time as meticulously as Brickbane, who’d scored every new moon with a notch in his walking stick.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The school gymnasium was more chaotic, with voters and volunteers, than it has been in many election moons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

NASA’s La Cañada Flintridge-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory built this snakelike machine with the goal of one day using it to explore difficult-to-reach places on other planets, moons or asteroids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

As scientists begin identifying more satellites in distant planetary systems, they may discover that familiar distinctions between stars, planets, and moons are not as universal as once assumed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The "capture" hypothesis, meanwhile, postulates that the moons are asteroids pulled in by Mars's gravity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

His mind, where the goddess of despair dangled moons from a charm bracelet and “didn’t seem terrible.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

While accepting the prize, Madonna reminisced about how her manager scolded her backstage at the very first MTV awards show, where she briefly mooned the audience in a performance fumble.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

She and Tom Arnold had mooned the crowd at a World Series game to show off their matching tattoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2018

That idea was encapsulated by the verbal exchange as Peggy mooned over those roses.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2014

You wouldn't even be getting this kind of coverage if Silvio Berlusconi mooned Barack Obama in front of the UN.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013

Almost disgusting, Rat said, the way they mooned over each other.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024

Would there be a ShyBelligerent if he still were mooning around Compton?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

He does big swings of mood, laughing hysterically, weeping when necessary, mooning over nature like a Beat poet.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

Footage captured the moment a terminally ill man was arrested by police officers after "mooning" at speed camera van.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021

I used to resent it when my mother would forget I was an adult, but I’m approaching the maundering phase myself, digging out the yellowing baby pictures, mooning over locks of hair.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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