moonshine

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In math, Ono is known for his work on a range of topics across number theory, from Ramanujan’s congruences to the umbral moonshine conjecture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

As she sings in "American Requiem" against reverberating acoustic guitar and piercing vocals, she is the "grandbaby of a moonshine man" in Gadsden, Alabama.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024

The letters showed that Navalny asked for an eclectic range of items, including, variously, a bottle of moonshine, a balalaika, a staff, two pouches of cheap tobacco, a kimono and a black belt.

From Reuters • Jun. 2, 2023

After the game Kiffin was asked what else was thrown at him: "Bottles filled with some brown stuff. Probably wasn’t moonshine. I don’t think they’d waste moonshine on me," he said.

From Fox News • Oct. 17, 2021

He found he could hide from daylight and moonshine, and make his way swiftly and softly by dead of night with his pale cold eyes, and catch small frightened or unwary things.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien