moon
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Hayley Metcalfe, 37, from Runcorn in Cheshire, said she and her husband Mike were "over the moon" to find out she was pregnant with her second son in 2023.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The moon will be near its closest point to earth, resulting in unusually long periods of totality over North Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The agendas also contained a distorted periodic table, unreadable phases of the moon and other garbled educational material that parents suspect may have been created using artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Even if it isn’t a one-for-one match of the watch Aldrin wore when he took those first steps onto the moon, it still serves as a shorthand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
IT must be the same as going to the moon, crossing the interior of Alaska by dog team.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The spacecraft will also observe Demios, the other of Mars' moons -- but without landing -- before a return capsule heads back to Earth to land in Australia in around 2031.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
"We were shocked to find the observed clays, which had to come from objects that were much, much bigger than Neptune's small inner ring moons."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Researchers think some of the debris from that violent event later gathered together to create the small inner moons that orbit Neptune today.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Feeling a lot better, he rummaged in his pack for one of the rolls of dried roe buck that he’d prepared – what seemed like moons ago.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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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
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
The worst that anti-gay rights activists faced was being mooned or flipped the bird.
From Slate ● May 16, 2012
So far, she seems mild-mannered compared with McQueen, who once mooned the crowd, in lieu of a bow, at the end of his runway show.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2011
Finn talked to squirrels and mooned out the window.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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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
To say that “a computer understands” is like saying that your car is losing its sense of humor or mooning over an old girlfriend.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023
Footage captured the moment a terminally ill man was arrested by police officers after "mooning" at speed camera van.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021
Neither he nor Kaspo- rio nor any of the other sellswords knew the fate of the denizens of Yezzan’s grotesquerie... but if Pretty Penny needed lies to stop her mooning, lie to her he would.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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